Typewriting machines inventions 01/07

20070020009 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and program therefor: Provided is an image combination apparatus, in which: a handwritten original area aspect ratio corresponding to an aspect ratio of a handwriting area in which a handwritten original is to be written and a predetermined image aspect ratio corresponding to an aspect ratio of a predetermined image are compared with... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070020010 - Ink ribbon cassette: An ink ribbon cassette is provided. The ink ribbon cassette includes a ribbon outlet provided near a first ribbon-receiving part of an ink ribbon cassette of the invention in a head insertion opening. A ribbon winding opening is provided near a second ribbon-receiving part in the head insertion opening. A... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070020011 - Ink ribbon cassette: An ink ribbon cassette is provided. A first and second ribbon-receiving parts of an ink ribbon cassette according to the invention includes wallsthat face each other with a predetermined distance therebetween. An ink ribbon slides on a first ribbon-sliding portion formed at a first wall of the first ribbon-receiving part... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070020012 - Ribbon module structure of label printer: A ribbon module structure of label printer comprises a frame, a supply axle, and a retrieve axle. A turning apparatus is installed in one side of the supply axle and a driving apparatus is installed in the retrieve axle. The turning apparatus has a connecting means and a control means.... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz, LLP

20070020013 - Apparatus and method for generating data signals: An ergonomic apparatus for generating data signals that may be indicative of alphanumeric characters for use with an electronic device or system such as a computer or electric typewriter, for example. The apparatus may be configured in accordance with ergonomic principles and use one or two hands to generate the... Agent: Beusse Wolter Sanks Mora & Maire, P. A.

20070020014 - Film driving apparatus and image forming apparatus using the same: The invention provides a film driving apparatus in which no adverse effect is caused by a change in the circumferential length of a film even if there arises the change in circumferential length of the film due to environmental fluctuation. In the film driving apparatus, an endless film 1 supported... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070020015 - Sheet transporting device and image forming apparatus using the same: A sheet transporting device includes: a sheet feeding cassette; a transporting unit that transports the sheet from the sheet feeding cassette; a swing member including a swing position, which changes among a first state in which the sheet feeding cassette is separated, a second state in which the sheet feeding... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070020016 - Exposure device: An exposure device includes a transmissive member and a shutter. The transmissive member allows passage therethrough of a light beam directed toward a scanning object. The shutter is mounted so as to be pivotable around a pivot shaft between a closed position and an open position. The shutter has a... Agent: Mark D. Saralino (general) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20070020017 - Position adjusting mechanism, process cartridge provided therewith, and image forming apparatus provided therewith: A position adjusting mechanism, straddling a holding section for rotatably holding rollers and an opposed holding section for holding an opposed member disposed opposite to the rollers, wherein mutual positions between the holding section and the opposed holding section are adjusted, whereby mutual positions between the rollers and the opposed... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070014612 - Parallel printing solution: An approach is provided for a parallel printing solution wherein one of a plurality of printing devices is designated a “master” device and receives print data, portions of which are then transmitted to the remainder of printing devices for processing according to instructions from the master device. According to one... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20070014614 - Image forming apparatus and program for outputting error information of image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus that comprises: an error history information storing unit; an error history information outputting unit; an error detecting unit that detects an error; an error type determining unit that determines whether an error belongs to the first type error or the second type error; a total print... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070014613 - Printing supporting apparatus, printing apparatus selecting apparatus, printing supporting program, printing apparatus selecting program, storage medium, method of selecting printing apparatus, method of supporting printing, and method of creating printin: A print support apparatus includes: a unit acquiring printing specification information; a unit acquiring printing apparatus information indicating capabilities of printing apparatuses; a unit selecting a printing apparatus as a printing destination based on the printing specification information and the printing apparatus information; a unit acquiring document data associated with... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070014616 - Image processing apparatus and image processing program storage medium: The present invention provides an image processing apparatus which can perform image processing suitable for each image in a job as well as provides an image processing program storage medium. The image processing apparatus has an information storage section which stores processing information used for predetermined image processing in memory... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070014615 - Printing apparatus and printing control method: An object of this invention is to improve an error process when a write error occurs in an RFID tag. According to this invention, a printing control method for a printing apparatus includes a write step of writing predetermined information by communicating with an RFID tag added to each label... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070014617 - Driver device and print head: A print head has m driver devices 1 that are fed with a supply voltage VDD and that control the driving of resistive elements acting as heaters and a regulator 2 that is fed with a supply voltage VH higher than the supply voltage VDD and that converts the supply... Agent: Arent Fox PLLC

20070014618 - Tape drive and printing apparatus: A tape drive for use in for example a transfer printing apparatus to drive a printer ribbon. The printer ribbon is mounted on two spools each of which is driven by a respective stepper motor. A controller controls the energization of the motor such that the ribbon is transported in... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070014619 - Center-justifying spindle assembly: Disclosed are a printer and a stacker and methods. The printer prints selectively on one or both sides of a printable web and sheets or labels are cut from the web and stacked in the stacker. The printer has an unwind mechanism that accepts and holds web rolls of different... Agent: Paxar Americas, Inc. Attn: Joseph J. Grass

20070014620 - Printer including wireless communication module: A printer includes: a main substrate that includes electronic parts for controlling an operation of a printer main body; and a wireless communication module that transmits and receives data, wherein: the main substrate is disposed in one side of the printer main body; and the wireless communication module is disposed... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20070014621 - Adjustable keyboard palmrest: A keyboard having a housing, a palm rest platform movably coupled to the housing and a lift mechanism configured to adjust the palm rest platform is described. Through use of hot keys on the keyboard or a user interface on the computer, the palm rest can be automatically adjusted to... Agent: Banner & Witcoff Ltd., Attorneys For Client Nos. 003797 & 013797

20070009299 - Printer and printing method: A printing apparatus (0330) that is connected via a communication path (0340) with a print instructing apparatus (0310) which issues a print instruction to print print data and a storage apparatus (0320) which has a storage space for temporarily storing the print data, the printing apparatus includes: a spool reservation... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20070009301 - System and method for improving print quality on mail pieces having low reflectivity: A printing system is provided that dynamically adjusts the method of printing an image based on the lightness or darkness of the medium upon which the image will be printed. The reflectivity of the medium upon which an image is to be printed is determined, and the way in which... Agent: Pitney Bowes Inc. 35 Waterview Drive

20070009300 - Use text fields for adding text to tab labels of tab stock inserted into copy jobs: A method and system for printing tab information on tab stock inserted into a print job output. A tab programming window is displayed on a tab programming screen of a user interface for receiving user-inputted data and information. Tab label data, tab label data orientation information, and tab stock size... Agent: Fay, Sharpe, Fagan, Minnich & Mckee, LLP

20070009302 - Printing device and cassette: The present invention relates to a cassette for a recording medium, comprising an upper casing and a lower casing, a spool for holding a roll of recording medium and disposed the upper and lower casings, and a side casing for enclosing the spool and joining the upper and lower casings,... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20070009303 - Keyboard configuration system: A system for configuring keyboards using both frequency and alphabetical bases, as well as the resulting keyboards. The Keyboard Configuration System uses alphabetized and frequency-based sets of keys. The relevant alphabet is analyzed for letter use on a frequency basis. For maximum-fingers configurations, the frequency-ranked list is broken into rows.... Agent: Cislo & Thomas, LLP

20070009304 - Card printer: A card printer includes a housing, a card inlet and a card outlet. A distance between the card inlet and the bottom of the housing is approximately the same as a distance between the card outlet and the bottom of the housing. When serially connecting two similar card printers, the... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070009305 - Printer: In a printer for printing a rolled printing paper, a front panel is attached to a frame that houses a print unit and a paper holder unit. When the front panel is opened, the print unit and the paper holder unit project on the front side of the frame in... Agent: Smith, Gambrell & Russell

20070009306 - Tape printing device and tape cassette: When a label tape 36 after the printing on a label 39 has been fed to a tape cutting position, heating elements R1-Rn of a thermal head 9 is situated to face a position slightly on the upstream side of a label front end position (at the downstream end in... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070009307 - Transfer tool: The invention provides a transfer tool which can preferably maintain a shape while improving a strength at a time of using, and has an improved usability. The transfer tool is provided with a first case (1) holding a replacement part including at least a transferring object, a second case (2)... Agent: Banner & Witcoff

20070009308 - Image forming device: A paper output mechanism includes a supporting frame supporting a rotational shaft on which output rollers are fixed. Pressing rollers are fixed at an intermediate position between the output rollers. A guide cover is mounted on the supporting frame. Supporting frame portions are mounted on a side edge of the... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20070009309 - Guide apparatus for mounting and dismounting inner part and image forming device having the same: A guide apparatus for mounting and dismounting an inner part usable in an image forming device includes: a first and a second sliders formed at both sides of a built-in part respectively; a first and a second undercut preventing parts formed at a first and a second side walls of... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070009310 - Image forming device: An image forming device includes: a main unit; an image bearing body; a belt unit; and a tension-applying mechanism. The belt unit is detachably mounted in the main unit and has a pair of supporting rollers supporting an endless belt thereon. The endless belt has an inner circumference side that... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20070009311 - Method of detecting position of printing medium performed in printing apparatus: In order to detect a position of an optical recording medium on which printing is performed, it is provided an optical sensor provided with include a photo emitter operable to emit light and a photo receiver operable to receive light and output a first signal in accordance with an amount... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070003347 - State machine-driven interactive system and associated methods: An interactive system, such as a webserver, is described of the type wherein responses to a user are associated with states of a state machine, the responses being generated as a result of a transition into a state associated with the response, the system comprising a state machine controller arranged... Agent: Robert Popa, Esq. C/o Ladas & Parry

20070003348 - Ultra high capacity line-matrix printer ribbon: A print ribbon for an impact printer uses a heavy-duty 70/70 denier fabric having approximately 230 threads per square inch. The fabric can be textured. The print ribbon uses an ink having a viscosity of approximately 2000 cps to 3400 cps, a liquid pigment, and a color strength of approximately... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070003349 - Printer ribbon with sewn feature and apparatus for forming same: A shaped conductive pattern is located very-close to the top and bottom edges of a print ribbon, e.g., 0.18″ or less, where the conductive pattern is sewn using a partially conductive thread, such as 20% steel and 80% polyester. A two-piece clamp used to sew the conductive feature has shaped... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070003350 - Ribbon identification: A ribbon identification system detects a digitally encoded tract comprised of radially printed bands of dark and light areas positioned on a ribbon spool that fits on a media printing device. Each type and length of ribbon to be used is associated with a specific and unique digitally encoded tract.... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070003351 - Ribbon hub and spool assembly: A ribbon hub and spool assembly includes a hub having at least two cantilever beams having a smooth, tapered, and curved crown, and a spool having curved and tapered splines. The cantilever beams balance the forces when inserting the hub into the spool, and the shape of the crowns of... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070003352 - Recording medium feeding method and image recording: A method for feeding a recording medium includes the steps of: feeding the recording medium along a sheet-feeding path by a unit feeding amount, detecting an entrance of a rear end of the recording medium into a jumping alarm area, dividing the unit feeding amount into minute divisional feeding amounts... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070003353 - Paper supply apparatus and image formation device: A paper supply apparatus provided with a support component, a slit plate and a rotation force transmission component. The support component freely rotatably supports a winding core around which roll paper is wound. The slit plate rotates integrally or interlockingly with the support component, and causes pulses to be generated... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070003354 - Printer: A cutter unit including a cutter for cutting long paper in a direction orthogonal to a paper feeding direction is disposed on one side of a printer body provided with a printing mechanism. A cover is attached to the printer body so as to cover an outer surface of the... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070003355 - Folding edge guide assembly for an imaging apparatus: A media edge guide assembly for use in an imaging apparatus having a media supply source includes a first edge guide portion and a second edge guide portion. The first edge guide portion and the second edge guide portion are arranged to have an axis of rotation passing through the... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20070003356 - Foreign object deflector for a printer: A printer which includes a printer housing including a top portion and a sheet feeder positioned on the top portion of the printer housing is disclosed. The sheet feeder includes a foreign object deflector. The foreign object deflector includes a foreign object deflector panel. The foreign object deflector panel is... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP