Typewriting machines inventions 02/07

20070041766 - Thermal printer: A thermal printer for printing by applying heat energy to a recording medium uses a single logic circuit arrangement to enable operating in a plurality of print modes, and enables easily changing the control logic of each print mode to afford high quality printing. Heating elements apply heat energy to... Agent: Epson Research And Development Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20070041767 - Image generating apparatus: An image generating apparatus capable of improving printing quality by suppressing irregularity in force for pressing a thermal head, mounted with a radiator plate, against a platen roller in a direction perpendicular to a paper carrying direction is obtained. This image generating apparatus comprises the platen roller, the thermal head... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070041768 - Ink ribbon, thermal transfer image forming apparatus , and method of recording print management information: A method of recording print management information in a thermal transfer image forming apparatus includes applying heat to a print region using a thermal head to print the image onto a sheet, and applying heat to a header mark located next to the print region to transfer the ink layer... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070041769 - Fixing element capable of rotatably fixing a ribbon roller in a ribbon cartridge: A ribbon roller is fixed in a ribbon cartridge via a fixing element. The fixing element includes an accommodation means and a fastening element. The accommodation means fixes a tab of the ribbon roller, and the fastening element engages the ribbon cartridge. When transporting the ribbon cartridge, the fixing element... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070041770 - Compact input device for entering data: A compact input device (104), suitable for entering data in an electronic device (102), includes a cylindrical surface (202) that has a keyboard switch matrix (210) deployed on the outer body of the cylindrical surface (202) formed by a first extendable interlocking part (412) and a second extendable interlocking part... Agent: Motorola Inc

20070041771 - Keyboard with extended connection: A keyboard for use with a host computer is disclosed. The keyboard has a main portion with a processor and a driver; and an auxiliary portion releasably connected to the main portion and being operatively connected to the processor by a cable. The processor and the driver of the main... Agent: Creative Labs, Inc. Legal Department

20070041772 - 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

20070041773 - Foldable keyboard for an electronic device: An electronic device with a full function foldable keyboard is presented and includes first, second and third body elements in an overlapping stacked alignment with one another when the device is in a closed position and a display screen constructed in at least one of said first, second and third... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070036598 - Printing apparatus and printing processing method: The presence/absence of a printing failure on a printed product is accurately detected to prevent a defective product from mixing in printed products to be delivered to a customer. In order to achieve this object, a printing processing method according to this invention includes steps of inputting first image data,... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20070036599 - Techniques for printing with integrated paper sheet identification: A printing method and apparatus includes fingerprinting a sheet of printable media such as paper to obtain a fingerprint. The fingerprint is encrypted using an encryption key known only to the user wanting to print the document. The encrypted fingerprint is then encoded and transferred to the document as machine... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070036600 - Image forming apparatus with thermal printing head and printing method thereof: An image forming apparatus using a thermal printing head (TPH) and a printing method thereof to print a borderless image on both sides of a printing medium. The image forming apparatus includes first and second feeding units respectively disposed at front and rear sides of the TPH to transfer the... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070036601 - Ink sheet cartridge: An ink sheet cartridge, requiring no adhesive, capable of inhibiting the number of components from increase is obtained. This ink sheet cartridge comprises first and second case portions storing an ink sheet as well as a first hook portion and a first hook engaging portion integrally provided on the first... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070036602 - Apparatus and method for detecting the amount of ink ribbon used: An apparatus and method for detecting the amount of an ink ribbon used are provided. In the apparatus, an ink ribbon includes ink layers formed on a transparent sheet, initial position boundary lines indicating initial positions of the ink layers for printing a unit of printing media, and color boundary... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070036603 - Portable keyboard: A keyboard for an electronic device comprises a housing having a top portion, a bottom portion, a first side portion and a second side portion. A plurality of keys are activatable from the bottom portion of the housing and optional keys may be activatable from either or both side portions... Agent: Wolf, Block, Schorr & Solis-cohen LLP

20070036604 - Roll paper printer: A roll paper printer comprising a roll paper storage unit having a bottom surface on which a roll paper is held and rolls, an operable cover unit for opening and closing a roll paper loading opening to the roll paper storage unit, a roll paper size detection mechanism comprising a... Agent: Edwards & Angell, LLP

20070036605 - Print medium feeding cassette and image forming apparatus having the same: A print medium feeding cassette and an image forming apparatus having the print medium feeding cassette are provided. The print medium feeding cassette includes a cassette frame having an inner space in which a print medium is stacked. The print medium is discharged from the inner space through an opening... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070036606 - 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; a presser, disposed between the guide... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070031171 - Refillable tape cassette: Further, proposals are made to hold the windings of refill tape units (30) together by means of a strip (60) of adhesive or wax on the axial ends of the units, or by scuffing the backing layer (9) of an image receiving tape (4) which is broader than the image... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20070031174 - Printer: An encoder is adapted to oppose to a scale provided with a plurality of marks or slits arranged in a first direction at predetermined intervals. A plurality of detectors is arranged in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction while being staggered in the first direction, each of which... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070031172 - Recording apparatus: A cartridge, detachably attached to a recording apparatus, includes a recording sheet container. The recording apparatus includes a sheet turning device. When a recording sheet is conveyed from the cartridge to an image forming section, the sheet turning device turns the recording sheet around an axis parallel to a normal... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070031173 - Sheet feeder, image-forming apparatus, and image-reading apparatus: A sheet feeder includes first and second rollers, a power source, and first and second drive units. The first and second rollers can be independently rotated to apply a feeding force to a sheet. The sheet feeder can switch the first drive unit to a meshing state and the second... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070031175 - Method of controlling transport amount, transport device and recording apparatus: A method of controlling transport amounts of a pair of first rollers and a pair of second rollers, the pair of first rollers operable to nip a medium so as to transport the medium in a transport direction, the pair of second rollers operable to nip the medium so as... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070025789 - Image forming apparatus using thermal print head: An image forming apparatus using a thermal printing head, the image forming apparatus including a printing unit having a thermal printing head to print an image by applying heat to a medium and a platen roller facing the thermal printing head to support the medium, a conveying unit to convey... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070025791 - Ribbon cassette capable of maintaining position of spool: A ribbon cassette capable of maintaining a position of one of its spools includes a shell, two spools, and two fasteners. Each of the fasteners is disposed at one side of one of the two spools for fastening the position of the spool. Therefore the spool is not able to... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070025790 - Ribbon cassette capable of maintaining ribbon position: A ribbon cassette capable of maintaining ribbon position includes a shell, two spools, and two guides. The two spools are each rotatably disposed above the shell for transporting the ribbon. The two guides are each disposed at one side of one of the two spools for maintaining the position of... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070025792 - Keyboard unit and electronic apparatus having a keyboard unit: According to one embodiment, a keyboard unit that includes a keyboard body having a key top and a detecting unit detecting water. The detecting unit is positioned on the keyboard body so as to facing to an under side of the key top.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070025793 - Input device: An input device is provided. An input device includes a plurality of input keys; a voltage setting unit; a switching unit; a detecting unit; and a control unit. When the switching unit selects one of the input keys, the control unit controls the detecting unit to detect voltages at least... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070025794 - A printer: The present invention provides a printer for printing to multiple forms of media and/or along multiple media paths, which may be through the use of a moveable print head and optionally may include one or more digital recording devices for recording information to certain forms of media.... Agent: Dobrusin & Thennisch PC

20070025795 - Tray transferring controller, recording apparatus and liquid ejecting apparatus: In a printer capable of performing recording on a recording medium such as an optical disk, a tray on which the recording medium is set is sent upstream or downstream by being nipped by a driving transfer roller rotatably driven by a motor and a driven transfer roller driven and... Agent: Edwards & Angell, LLP

20070025796 - Exit roller system for an imaging apparatus: An imaging apparatus includes a print engine having a print zone. A print media feed system transports a sheet of print media in a media feed direction along a media feed path through the print zone. The print media feed system includes a plurality of exit rollers positioned across a... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department