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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7682095 | Paper storage apparatus, and a paper processing apparatus having a paper storage apparatus A paper storage apparatus for stacking and storing paper in sequence comprising a first discharge roller 21 for discharging paper (check S1) in a specified discharge direction; a paper storage pocket (check storage pocket 12) for stacking the pa... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7628558 | Transport system, recording apparatus and liquid ejection apparatus A transport system includes a guide, operable to guide a transported medium in a transport direction; a driver, disposed at a downstream side of the guide in the transport direction, and operable to come into contact with a bottom surface of the transported medium; ... | 12/08/2009 |
| 7559712 | Image forming apparatus having a guide member to guide paper An image forming apparatus includes a conveying roller to convey a paper, a guide member to guide the paper conveyed by the conveying roller, a pressurizing roller to pressurize the paper guided by the guide member, and a heat transferring unit faced towards the pre... | 07/14/2009 |
| 7540678 | Paper storage apparatus, and a paper processing apparatus having a paper storage apparatus A paper storage apparatus for stacking and storing paper in sequence comprising a first discharge roller 21 for discharging paper (check S1) in a specified discharge direction; a paper storage pocket (check storage pocket 12) for stacking the pa... | 06/02/2009 |
| 7497634 | Mechanism for temporarily stocking recording sheet material and printer equipped with the same Disclosed are a sheet material stocking mechanism providing a large stocking capacity with a small space and a printer equipped with such a stocking mechanism. A thermal printer is composed of a roll accommodating unit (2) retaining a heat sensitive adhesive ... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7431520 | Image forming apparatus performing double-sided printing An image forming apparatus is provided and includes a platen roller and a thermal printing head. The thermal printing head is elastically biased toward the platen roller and rotates about a pivot of the platen roller for moving between first and second positions to ... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7419318 | Recording medium conveying device A recording medium conveying device comprising: a master roll holder to hold a master roll of a recording medium; a platen to support the recording medium supplied from the master roll holder in an image recording section; a conveyance roller positioned upstream of ... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7360959 | Printer apparatus A printer body of a printer apparatus is provided with paired bearing portions such that the paired bearing portions face each other, while a paper support for supporting a paper sheet is provided with paired rotating shaft portions, which are rotatably journaled by... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7350993 | Paper storage apparatus, and a paper processing apparatus having a paper storage apparatus A paper storage apparatus for stacking and storing paper in sequence comprising a first discharge roller 21 for discharging paper (check S1) in a specified discharge direction; a paper storage pocket (check storage pocket 12) for stacking the pa... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7322760 | Antijamming device for printers put in public places An antijamming device for a printed ticket vending machine having an exit opening for exiting of a printed ticket and a control for controlling feeding of unprinted tickets to a printing mechanism for printing tickets, having a pathway through which printed tickets ... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7303275 | Inkjet recording device An inkjet recording device, includes a recording head configured to discharge a liquid drop of recording liquid in a horizontal direction or in a vertically lower direction than the horizontal direction; and a conveying part configured to convey a recording medium s... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7284918 | Recording method, computer-readable medium, and recording apparatus A recording method, for example, which allows a recording medium to be carried with high carrying precision is to be achieved. A recording method includes a step of changing a carry command value, when carrying a recording medium, according to a state of bending of ... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7275483 | Jam resistant printer bezel An anti-jam bezel is provided for dispensing a flexible substrate from an output slot. A guideway is provided for receiving the flexible substrate from a transport and guiding the flexible substrate into the output slot. The guideway may extend from the output slot ... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7258500 | Media processing apparatus and scanner unit The media processing apparatus has a first transportation path for guiding the check, a second transportation path and a third transportation path that diverge from the first transportation path, a front scanner that is rendered along the first transportation path f... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7243915 | Input/output trays for hardcopy device The illustrated input and output trays are pivotally attached to the hardcopy device and are movable between a processing position and a storage position. ... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7241063 | Printer A top cover and a guide member form a discharge port. A plurality of guide ribs is provided on an edge portion of the top cover. A plurality of projecting pieces is provided on a guide member at positions not to face to the guide ribs. These guide ribs and projectin... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7232269 | Recording apparatus Ridges and grooves are alternately formed on a platen in the direction of transporting sheets. Wave holding spurs are rotatably supported by torsion springs downstream of a recording area, and pressed against the grooves. Sheet discharge roller pairs are disposed ge... | 06/19/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7207736 | Paper insertion limiting device for a paper feeding unit A paper insertion limiting device of a paper feeding unit which prevents papers from being inserted to a drive roller when the papers are loaded. The paper insertion limiting device of a paper feeding unit is provided with a sheet regulating member mounted on the fr... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7201343 | Carrier-less patch protection including cassette and separation device The present invention is a laminate media, in the form of a continuous strip of carrier-less, pre-cut plastic patch protections, connected by perforations. The invention further describes both a method for separating the patches from each other by stressing the perf... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7201523 | Print engine for a pagewidth inkjet printer A print engine for a pagewidth inkjet printer includes a chassis. A pair of opposed printhead assemblies are mounted on the chassis to carry out a double-sided printing operation on a sheet of media interposed between the printhead assemblies. A pair of opposed feed... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7195411 | Recording apparatus with mechanism for ejecting recording medium A printer includes: a recording section for recording information on a recording medium; a medium carrying mechanism provided in an apparatus casing having an eject port that is opened in an upward direction or in a slanted upward direction; a medium accommodating s... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7192207 | Both-side recording apparatus and recording method In both-side recording, wherein the fed recording sheet is conveyed to the recording portion and after the recording is executed on a face side surface, the recording sheet is conveyed to a sheet reversing portion where both sides are reversed, and is sent to the re... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7182337 | Paper feeder, recording apparatus, and method of detecting a position of a terminal edge of a recording material in the recording apparatus A paper feed unit includes a hopper on which sheets are stacked and which is turned around a rotation shaft. The hopper is turned to move apart from or move to a paper feed roller. The paper feed unit has three modes: a large release mode in which the hopper is turn... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7182336 | Paper feeder, recording apparatus, and method of detecting a position of a terminal edge of a recording material in the recording apparatus A paper feed unit includes a hopper on which sheets are stacked and which is turned around a rotation shaft. The hopper is turned to move apart from or move to a paper feed roller. The paper feed unit has three modes: a large release mode in which the hopper is turn... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7172354 | Self-contained edge printer A self-contained edge printing machine which can print any sequence of numbers or letters adjacent the top edge or adjacent the bottom edge of a standard 8½″ by 11″ piece of paper. The machine is a stand-alone self-contained unit that has its own stationary ink... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7167192 | Image forming device An image forming device has a recording unit for recording a recording material in a sheet form in a major scanning direction based on an input image signal and a conveyance unit for conveying the recording material in a sub-scanning direction substantially perpendi... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7163348 | Postage meter for printing near the top edge of an envelope A mailing machine including a postage meter for printing evidence of postage payment on a media includes a registration surface, a print head, an envelope transport having at least two nips for keeping the media from skewing and contacting the print head, a media sk... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7137750 | 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... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7130575 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes: a fixing device that fixes the toner image onto the recording medium by applying heat and pressure; ejection rollers provided away from the fixing device for ejecting the recording medium; a guide provided on at least one part of... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7128318 | Sheet registration deskew improvement system with a centrally pivotal baffle Sheet registration with improved sheet deskewing of print media sheets may be provided with an intermediately transversely pivotal baffle member overlying and engaging at least part of a buckled sheet being edge registered so that the effective buckle chamber size a... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7114867 | Both-side recording apparatus In a recording apparatus including an inversion unit for inverting a recording sheet recorded on a side in a recording unit by conveying along a predetermined path and returning the recording sheet to the recording unit, the possibility of peeling of recording mater... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7108260 | Flexible director paper path module A flexible media transport system includes a director element having articulating tips that provide access to selected media paths. The director element(s) can be incorporated into a director module. Multiple director modules can then be combined into a highly flexi... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7083346 | Paper discharge unit for an inkjet printer A paper discharge unit for an inkjet printer which ejects a sheet on which image printing is completed by an ink cartridge out of a printer main body. The paper discharge unit for an inkjet printer includes paper discharge rollers rotatably mounted in the printer ma... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7079805 | Sheet guide device of a guide path intersecting portion and image forming apparatus provided with the same device A sheet guide device having a first sheet guide path and a second sheet guide path intersecting with each other for guiding a sheet and a pivotally movable guide member pivotally movably provided on a common downstream side corner of the first sheet guide path and t... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7070181 | Systems and methods for detecting bi-directional passage of an object via an articulated flag member arrangement An articulated flag member arrangement detects bi-directional passage of an object. In embodiments, the articulated flag member arrangement comprises a first flag member and a second flag member wherein the first and second flag members interact with each other to d... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7066463 | System and method for sheet transporting using dual capstan rollers A platesetting system and method comprising a pair of dual capstan rollers that receives a recording medium and records an image on the received medium as the medium is transported through the system. The system and method advantageously enable at least a portion of... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7063473 | Both-side recording apparatus A first sheet passing path from an automatic sheet supplying section to a recording section and a second sheet passing path leading to an automatic reversing section from the recording section and leading to the recording section from the automatic reversing section... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7044595 | Apparatus to control static electricity in an ink-jet printer An apparatus to control static electricity in an inkjet printer, includes a feeding roller to convey paper being fed from a paper-feeding portion to be placed under a print head; a pinch roller to rotate in contact with the feeding roller; a holder on which a shaft ... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7040617 | System and method for sheet transporting using dual capstan rollers A platesetting system and method comprising a pair of dual capstan rollers that receives a recording medium and records an image on the received medium as the medium is transported through the system. The system and method advantageously enable at least a portion of... | 05/09/2006 |
