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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7680512 | Method of using a mobile device to print onto a print medium taking into account an orientation of a print medium A method of using a mobile device to print onto a print medium, the method comprising the steps of: (a) determining print data; (b) determining a first orientation of a print medium inserted into the mobile device; and (c) modifying a second orientation of the print... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7677698 | Modular printhead assembly with reservoir mounted printhead modules A modular printhead assembly is provided for an inkjet printer. The modular printhead assembly includes an elongate chassis defining a plurality of slots. An elongate ink reservoir is fast with the chassis. The ink reservoir defines: a plurality of longitudinally ex... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7677692 | Cradle unit for receiving a print cartridge to form a print engine Provided is a cradle unit for receiving a print cartridge to form a print engine. The cradle unit includes a main body defining an opening for receiving said cartridge, the main body having a frame structure including end plates with drive and exit rollers mounted t... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7677682 | Modular printer with substantially identical duplexed printhead assemblies A modular printer includes a frame. A housing in which the frame is housed has an operatively upper and an operatively lower cover and defines a print media inlet at one end between the covers and a print media outlet at an opposite end between the covers. An inlet ... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7677685 | Nozzle assembly for an inkjet printer for ejecting a low volume droplet A nozzle assembly for an inkjet printhead is disclosed. The nozzle assembly includes an inkjet nozzle having an actuator for ejecting an ink droplet from the inkjet nozzle when a resistive element of the actuator is heated by an electrical current. A drive transisto... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7677703 | Thermal inkjet with multiple drop volumes per nozzle A pagewidth printhead has a controller. The printhead also has a plurality of micro-electromechanical nozzle arrangements controlled by the controller. Each nozzle arrangement includes side walls located on a wafer substrate with a roof portion attached to said wall... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7677687 | Printer including overlapping elongate printheads A printer includes a plurality of stationary printhead modules located across a print media transport path. In order to provide continuity of printheads across the transport path some, or all, of the printheads are slanted so that the ends of the printheads overlap.... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7677704 | Printhead unit cell having welled heater element A unit cell of a printhead is provided having a multi-layer substrate defining an ink inlet, one or more side walls extending from the substrate around the ink inlet, a nozzle plate supported by the side walls to define a chamber in fluid communication with the ink ... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7677445 | Method of counting currency A method of counting currency documents including a plurality of coded data portions thereon. Each coded data portion is indicative of an identity of the currency document and the method includes, sensing at least one coded data portion for each currency document us... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7678667 | Method of bonding MEMS integrated circuits A method of bonding an integrated circuit to a substrate is provided. The integrated circuit is one of a plurality of integrated circuits, each having a respective frontside releasably attached to a film frame tape supported by a wafer film frame. The method compris... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7681000 | System for protecting sensitive data from user code in register window architecture A system for protecting supervisor mode data from user code in a register window architecture of a processor is provided. The system, when transitioning from supervisor mode to user mode, setting at least one invalid window bit in the invalid window mask of the arch... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7677702 | Inkjet printhead comprising bonded heater element and dielectric layer with low thermal product A thermal inkjet printhead with generally planar heater elements disposed in respective bubble forming chambers such that they are bonded on one side to the chamber so that the other side faces into the chamber. Each heater element receives an energizing pulse to he... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7677699 | Air expulsion arrangement for printhead assembly A printhead assembly comprises an elongate channel member of a metal alloy, a flexible elongate fluid carrier, and a series of printhead modules mounted to an external surface of the fluid carrier. The flexible elongate fluid carrier is positioned on a floor of the ... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7677686 | High nozzle density printhead ejecting low drop volumes A printhead assembly that has a printhead substrate having a plurality of drop generators formed thereon at an area density of at least six drop generators per square millimeter. The droplets emitted have a drop volume less than 8 pico liters. The fluid forming the ... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7676382 | Method of dispensing a pharmaceutical product A method of dispensing a pharmaceutical product, the pharmaceutical product being associated with packaging having disposed thereon or therein coded data, at least some of the coded data being indicative of at least an identity of the pharmaceutical product. The met... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7673966 | Printhead assembly with printhead IC tiles A printhead assembly for a pagewidth printer arrangement includes a channel shaped member. A number of printhead tiles are located in the channel shaped member. Each tile has a printhead integrated circuit (IC) carrier member for receiving a printhead IC and an ink ... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7674082 | Wall mountable printer with a glue applicator assembly and a binder assembly Provided is a wall mountable printer with a glue applicator assembly operatively applying adhesive to a vertical edge of a sheet of printed paper. The printer has a binder assembly including an enclosure chassis, and a powered spike wheel assembly configured to rece... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7673967 | Modular printer assembly with a loading mechanism Provided is a modular printer assembly which includes a housing having upper and lower covers, a first side wall and a second, opposed side wall, as well as a loading mechanism which includes a drive assembly with a traversing mechanism engaged with the drive assemb... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7669973 | Printhead having nozzle arrangements with radial actuators A printhead for an inkjet printer has a wafer that defines a plurality of nozzle chambers and ink supply channels in fluid communication with the nozzle chambers to supply the nozzle chambers with ink. An ink ejection port is associated with each nozzle chamber. A s... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7669974 | Nozzle assembly with lever arm and thermal bend actuator A nozzle assembly is provided for an inkjet printhead. The nozzle assembly includes a substrate assembly defining an ink inlet. A nozzle extends from the substrate assembly in register with the ink inlet and defines an opening through which ink can be ejected. A lev... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7669976 | Ink drop ejection device with non-buckling heater element A ink drop ejection device that has a nozzle and a bubble forming chamber for holding ejectable liquid. At least one heater element is suspended in the bubble forming chamber to heat the ejectable liquid to a temperature above its boiling point to form a gas bubble ... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7669979 | Inkjet printhead with an ink chamber having a movable circular paddle defining an annular aperture An inikjet printhead including an ink chamber. The ink chamber includes a nozzle defined in a first wall and an ink inlet aperture for introducing ink into the ink chamber. Also provided is a movable circular paddle positioned within the ink chamber for ejecting ink... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7669980 | Printhead having low energy heater elements A printhead is provided having a plurality of nozzles and a plurality of heater elements each for heating an ejectable liquid to cause ejection of a drop of the ejectable liquid from a respective one of the nozzles. Each heater element is configured such that the en... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7669996 | Inkjet printer with elongate array of nozzles and distributed pulse dampers An inkjet printer that has an elongate array of nozzles for ejecting ink and ink conduits for supplying the array of nozzles with ink. The ink conduits are aligned with the longitudinal extent of the elongate array and have a plurality of pulse dampers individually ... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7671194 | Method of preparing naphthalocyanines A method of preparing a naphthalocyanine is provided. The method comprises the steps of: (i) providing a tetrahydronaphthalic anhydride; (ii) converting said tetrahydronaphthalic anhydride to a benzisoindolenine; and (iii) macrocyclizing said benzisoindolenine to fo... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7669977 | Nozzle device with expansive chamber-defining layer A nozzle device is provided for an inkjet printhead. The nozzle device includes a substrate assembly defining an ink supply. A chamber-defining layer defines a nozzle chamber in fluid communication with a nozzle opening and the ink supply. An actuating arm is couple... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7671334 | Viewing device for use with coded data on a surface A viewing device is used with coded data on a surface. The device includes a sensor arrangement for sensing the coded data when the device is placed on the surface, and a processor in signal communication with the sensor arrangement. The processor is configured to d... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7669956 | Temperature regulated inkjet printhead A printhead IC is provided which has an array of nozzles, drive circuitry for receiving print data and sending drive pulses of electrical energy to the array of nozzles in accordance with the print data, and a temperature sensor connected to the drive circuitry to a... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7672012 | Display device for use as a computer monitor, having a printer controller and a pagewidth printhead A display device for use as a computer monitor, the display device comprising: a flat panel display for displaying images from a computer; a printer, the printer including: (a) a printe... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7669972 | Printhead having suspended heater elements An inkjet printhead is disclosed. The printhead includes a substrate defining a plurality of ink inlet passages; a plurality of nozzle chambers formed on the substrate, each nozzle chamber being in fluid communication with at least one of the ink inlet passages, and... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7669958 | Printhead cartridge comprising integral printhead maintenance station with maintenance roller A printhead cartridge for an inkjet printer is provided. The cartridge is removably receivable in the printer. The cartridge comprises: (a) a printhead; (b) an ink delivery system for supplying ink to the printhead; and (c) a maintenance station for maintaining the ... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7669961 | Print engine for an inkjet printer A print engine for an inkjet printer including: a removable inkjet cartridge of a type having a pagewidth printhead and an ink supply; and a cradle having a body adapted to receive the removable inkjet cartridge an... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7669964 | Ink supply unit for a printhead in an inkjet printer An ink supply unit is provided for supplying ink to a printhead in a printer. An elongate manifold defines a plurality of sets of ink passages and further defines a recess in which the printhead can be received so that the ink passages are in fluid communication wit... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7669965 | Alignment mechanism for a printhead module An alignment mechanism for a printhead includes a support frame into which there is formed a printhead module mounting plate. The mounting plate is coupled to a lever at one side of the lever's fulcrum point. A grub screw is captured by a portion of the mounting fra... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7669967 | Printhead having hydrophobic polymer coated on ink ejection face A printhead having a hydrophobic ink ejection face is provided. At least part of the ink ejection face is coated with a hydrophobic polymeric material selected from the group comprising: polymerized siloxanes and fluorinated polyolefins. ... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7669970 | Ink nozzle unit exploiting magnetic fields An ink nozzle unit is provided for an inkjet printhead. The nozzle unit includes a substrate assembly. A nozzle extends from the substrate assembly. The nozzle defines an internal nozzle chamber and an ink ejection portal through which ink supplied to the nozzle cha... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7669971 | Inkjet printer with low nozzle to chamber cross-section ratio Provided is a nozzle arrangement for an inkjet printhead. The nozzle arrangement includes a substrate defining an ink chamber with an ink ejection port and ink holes for receiving ink from an ink reservoir, and a magnetic actuation device arranged in the chamber and... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7669957 | Method of removing flooded ink from a printhead using a rotating roller A method of removing particulates from an ink ejection face of a printhead is provided. The method comprises the steps of: (a) flooding the face with ink from the printhead, thereby dispersing the particulates into the flooded ink; and (b) transferring the flooded i... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7672664 | Printing a reminder list using mobile device A system for printing a reminder list on a print medium is disclosed. The system includes a mobile telecommunications device having a printer module to print the reminder list on the print medium and a sensor module to sense a print media identifier of the print med... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7673218 | System for decoding bit stream printed on surface A system for decoding coded data printed in ink on a surface. The coded data includes an encoded bit stream and associated redundancy data, and a registration structure of clock tracks indicative of a position of the coded data in the direction perpendicular to an a... | 03/02/2010 |