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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7207737 | Thermal transfer printer cover A system and method of protecting a printer housing against moisture infiltration, including affixing a fixed covering portion over the printer housing, wherein the affixing includes exposing a printing opening of the printer housing, and securing a removable coveri... | 04/24/2007 |
| 6695506 | Platen supporting device In the present invention, a flat platen having a flat surface opposed to a print head is fixed to a platen supporting member by a fixing member, and a first impact absorbing member is disposed elastically between the platen and the platen supporting membe... | 02/24/2004 |
| 6336758 | Printer A printer wherein a drive roller of a pair of sheet discharge rollers is made of rubber and a driven roller of the pair of sheet discharge rollers is made of synthetic resin; the leading end of a sheet is guided so as to be abutted against the drive rolle... | 01/08/2002 |
| 5915862 | Paper feed method and apparatus for a printer using a main body flap and movable insulating and guide cover It is an object of the present invention to prevent a sheet of continuous-form paper from slackening when it is fed back in a printer capable of feeding both sheets of continuous-form paper and cut-form paper. According to the method for feeding back a sh... | 06/29/1999 |
| 5913626 | Printer having noise noise reduction structure A printer wherein a drive roller of a pair of sheet discharge rollers is made of rubber and a driven roller of the pair of sheet discharge rollers is made of synthetic resin; the leading end of a sheet is guided so as to be abutted against the drive rolle... | 06/22/1999 |
| 5737089 | Image forming apparatus with a plotter cover which rotatably supports a platen roller An image forming apparatus having a recording section for recording an image on a thermosensitive sheet paid out from a roller with a record head and a platen roller, and a reading section for reading a document with a scanner and a conveyor roller. The a... | 04/07/1998 |
| 5707161 | Printer with a multiple continuous-sheet processing capability In a printer with a multiple continuous-sheet processing capability, a first pusher tractor unit and a second pusher tractor unit disposed above the first feed continuous sheets from the front of the printer to a printing line along substantially straight... | 01/13/1998 |
| 5669725 | Impact dot printer with noise suppression An impact dot printer designed to reduce noise, including a first cover, a second cover, and an overlap portion therebetween. The first cover is located above a print section, and may include sound wave reflecting plates, sheet guide plates, and a sound a... | 09/23/1997 |
| 5639170 | Printing head for wire-dot printer A wire-dot printing head has a housing in which a plurality of actuator assemblies are accommodated to drive a plurality of wire elements. An annular hollow space is formed in a side wall of the housing surrounding the actuator assemblies, whereby noise a... | 06/17/1997 |
| 5573337 | Printer with device for noise leakage reduction To provide a printer in which leakage to the outside of noise produced inside the printer during printing using continuous paper is made low. A printer having a cut sheet feeder 5 which automatically feeds paper into a printing portion 4, an opening for c... | 11/12/1996 |
| 5417488 | Mechanical security apparatus for facsimile machines An apparatus is provided to secure a facsimile machine and provide a secure receptacle portion adapted to receive and retain paper output from facsimile machines, so as to ensure the security and confidentiality of paper output from facsimile machines, so... | 05/23/1995 |
| 5413427 | Printer architecture structure A printer architecture structure in which a flexible external case is used to compress and sandwich internal printer structure comprised of a rigid metal base and printer chassis structure by nominally compressing resilient pads between the chassis struct... | 05/09/1995 |
| 5244295 | Printing device having a sound insulating wall A dot-matrix impact printer includes a print head in a housing for printing a recording sheet fed around a platen. The recording sheet is pressed against the platen by a sheet presser roller. A roller cover or a flap is disclosed as a sound insulating wal... | 09/14/1993 |
| 5207521 | Guide and cover arrangement for printers A body structure for a printer comprises a front cover and a rear cover and is capable of accommodating a platen roller a typing device and an advance device for advancing and feeding individual or continuous forms. A hinge element fixed to a pillar of th... | 05/04/1993 |
| 5178069 | Protective device for offset rotary printing machines The invention relates to a protective device for offset rotary printing machines, in particular for printing units of sheet-fed rotary printing machines, with a sheet-like protective covering of the danger points, which is designed in such a way that soun... | 01/12/1993 |
| 5158378 | Printing apparatus In an impact type printing apparatus, leak of impact noise to outside can be reduced by (1) arranging the print head, platen and sheet exhaust port almost in a line and (2) setting the shape of guide ribs provided at the internal surface of cover having t... | 10/27/1992 |
| 5152620 | Matrix printer employing a matrix print head on a movable slider having sound insulating material A matrix printer is furnished with a matrix print head (1) supported on a back and forth movable slider (2), guided on a rail guide (3), wherein the print elements (4) can be operated at a high frequency. A matrix print head (1), disposed fixedly in its p... | 10/06/1992 |
| 5137385 | Printer for use with electronic cash register A printer for use with an electronic cash register in which both a printer mechanism and an openable/closable unit are housed in a cabinet. A cover member is openably and closeably mounted on the cabinet for lying over the unit. A rib is provided in the r... | 08/11/1992 |
| 5013169 | Print head having reduced noise and vibration characteristics An improved print head for a dot matrix printer is provided. The printing is performed by wires projecting from said print head. The movement of the wires is controlled by the movement of armatures which contact an armature base. The construction of the b... | 05/07/1991 |
| 4930917 | Soundproof construction in printer box A sound reducing construction for shielding sound in a confined box, the box including a first plate component formed with a first open end portion and a second plate component formed with a second open end portion and accommodating therein a machine whic... | 06/05/1990 |
| 4733982 | Adaptive paper slot device for an acoustic silencer enclosure An adaptive paper slot device providing adjustment for the location of paper slot feeds to and from a printer located within an acoustic silencer enclosure to permit using one enclosure with a number of printers having different paper feed locations. The ... | 03/29/1988 |
| 4726699 | Noise attenuation in printers Sound attenuation for a printer which includes impacting print elements and other movable noise producing parts being mounted to a frame and further including a biparted housing; the frame bottom having downwardly extending feet by means of which the prin... | 02/23/1988 |
| 4645275 | Portable carrying case and sound shield for a printer with a self-contained support stand A portable carrying case for a printer of a computer system that doubles as an acoustical enclosure and may be converted into a printer stand. The case includes a base and removable cover which are both padded with urethane foam to protect the printer whi... | 02/24/1987 |
| 4636101 | Low-noise type impact printer The noise level of an impact printer is reduced by at least 5 dB by providing a resonant absorption chamber between the printer frame and the cover which is designed so as to have a resonance frequency corresponding to the fundamental frequency of the pri... | 01/13/1987 |
| 4502804 | Paper feeding and guiding system A paper feeding and guiding system for a printer with a flat platen has twin mating feed rollers fitted with "O" ring type friction elements cooperating with specially curved entrance and exit paper directing and guiding members which keep the paper or ot... | 03/05/1985 |
| 4239398 | Device for attenuating noise emitted to the environment by noise-generating aggregates having simultaneous dissipation of heat A device for attenuating noise emitted to the environment by noise-generating aggregates, while simultaneously dissipating heat, provides a housing about the noise-generating aggregate, which housing comprises a pot-shaped capsule of noise-attenuating mat... | 12/16/1980 |
| 4135830 | Wire printer printing head A wire printer printing head comprises a support member, a plurality of printing elements having a print wire with a flap-armature electromagnet and a sound absorbing cover. The printing element are radially and slidably mounted to the support member and ... | 01/23/1979 |
