Typewriting machines inventions 05/07

20070122220 - Ink-jet recording apparatus: An image recording apparatus, including a carriage which is reciprocated in a reciprocating direction; a pair of guide frames which extend parallel to each other in the reciprocating direction and which cooperate with each other to guide a reciprocating movement of the carriage, wherein the two guide frames are separate... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070122221 - Recording apparatus: The present invention easily provides a compact recording apparatus including a paper chamber capable of containing paper and a ribbon chamber containing an ink ribbon in a manner such that the ink ribbon on a supply shaft can be taken up onto a take-up shaft, by utilizing the dead spaces... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070122222 - Platen roller holding structure: A protrusions are formed on the periphery of the bearing plates rotatably holding a rotation shaft of the platen roller at both ends of the rotation shaft, and the protrusions protrude outward from portions of the bearing plates facing each other. The protrusions of the bearing plates facing each other... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070122223 - Printer: A printer includes a platen, a feed roller, recording units, a pressure auxiliary roller that faces an outer peripheral surface of the platen and is disposed at a front position before the recording units in a feed direction so as to press the recording medium against the outer peripheral surface... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070122224 - Method and apparatus for marking workpieces: A method and an apparatus are provided for marking a sheet-shaped workpiece using a marking tool. The marking tool is mounted in a punch holder of a punch press and a counter-support is fixed in place on a side opposite of a marking surface of the workpiece to be marked.... Agent: Stites & Harbison PLLC

20070122225 - Both side printable printer: A printer having a fewer number of components and a simple structure, and capable of double-side printing is provided. A multi-function device 1 comprises a printing unit 10, a cassette 5, a supply unit 6, a sheet support plate 11, a cover plate 46, and a pair of feed-out rollers... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070122226 - Medium feeding apparatus, liquid ejecting apparatus and recording apparatus: A medium feeding apparatus includes: a pivot unit, supporting a medium and pivoting to cause the medium to come in contact with and to separate from a feeding unit; a first guide unit, guiding one side end of the medium supported on the pivot unit; a second guide unit, guiding... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20070116505 - Winding apparatus: A winding apparatus for use in a copier, a printer, and other devices for ejecting a printed sheet in a rolled form of a cylinder without having a core includes a gripping mechanism for gripping the leading end of a sheet when the sheet is rolled into cylindrical form. The... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070116506 - Door panel interlocks for an image forming device: An image forming device includes a body and one or more door assemblies. At least one door assembly may be movable between open and closed orientations. A variety of mechanical and electrical interlocks may be used to control motion of the door assemblies. A first interlock may prevent a door... Agent: John J. Mcardle, Jr.IPLaw Department, Dept. 865a/082-01

20070110491 - Method and apparatus adjusting the position of a printhead: A printhead assembly including a printhead arranged to print on an image-receiving substrate; a platen; a fixed support; a first frame slideably connected to said fixed support, one of said printhead and said platen being mounted on said first frame; and a driver for driving said first frame relative to... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20070110492 - Printing system and computer usable medium therefor: A printing system, comprising a detecting system, which detects from a content to be printed a link destination address as an address assigned to information being associated with the content, a code symbol generating system, which generates a code symbol representing the link destination address detected by the detecting system... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070110493 - Media feeding device capable of detecting size of fed printed media: A media feeding device capable of detecting the size of the fed media is provided. The claimed media feeding device follows the property of different bit signals, wherein the bit signals are transformed from different rotational angles generated by the rotational shafts, which are pushed by the printed media of... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070104525 - Information processing apparatus, printing apparatus, electronic device, and computer program therefor: An information processing apparatus and method for controlling printing, the apparatus and method including acquiring printing apparatus identification information for identifying a printing apparatus from a removable medium connected to the information processing apparatus, producing print data to be printed by the printing apparatus using a printer driver compatible with... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070104526 - Ribbon tensioning mechanisms: Identity document processing equipment with a mechanism designed to maintain tension in a ribbon used in a processing operation in the processing equipment. The tension maintaining mechanism is separate from the supply roll and the take-up roll for the ribbon, eliminating the need for clutches or brakes attached to the... Agent: Hamre, Schumann, Mueller & Larson, P.C.

20070104527 - Printer apparatus: A printer apparatus is disclosed that includes a main body having a paper roll installing part containing a paper roll therein; a cover covering the paper roll installing part when the cover is closed; a printing part for printing data onto a part of the paper roll; and a presenter... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070104528 - Paper feeding device: The invention provides a paper feeding device. The paper feeding device comprises a paper container and a paper-transmitting mechanism. The paper container comprises a first connecting portion. The paper-transmitting mechanism comprises a second connecting portion. The second connecting portion movably connected with the first connecting portion which makes the paper-transmitting... Agent: Quintero Law Office, PC

20070104529 - Paper-feeding system capable of switching paper-feeding statuses: A paper-feeding system includes a paper tray for positioning a print medium, a pickup roller installed in front of the paper tray for picking up the print medium, a pickup arm connected to the pickup roller including a first retainer, a first elastic component connected to the pickup arm for... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070104530 - Image forming apparatus having unit housing permitting mechanism: An image forming apparatus including: an apparatus body; a first unit which can be pulled/pushed from/to the body along a first direction and which includes at least a part of an image forming section for forming an image and/or of a sheet transporting section for transporting a sheet onto which... Agent: Mark D. Saralino (general) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20070098473 - Tape printing apparatus and tape cassette: A label printer for printing on a direct thermal tape in a plurality of colours, said label printer comprising at least one print head for printing an image on said tape in said plurality of colours and an interface for selecting at least one background colour and at least one... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20070098474 - Printer: Various embodiments of a printer including an actuation member are disclosed.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070098475 - Image and stacking orientation compensating method and apparatus for media having marginal regions with different thicknesses: In accordance with one aspect of the present exemplary embodiment, a printing system comprises a media feeder that receives and stores asymmetrically thick media from an outside source and outputs such media to the printing system via a feed mechanism. A conveyer system transports the asymmetrically thick media from the... Agent: Michael E. Hudzinski Fay, Sharpe, Fagan, Minnich & Mckee, LLP

20070098476 - Drive mechanism for a feed roller in a printer: A drive mechanism for a feed roller in a printer, which includes a worm wheel connected to the feed roller and forming a rotary unit therewith, a worm engaging said worm wheel, a motor driving said worm, an encoder detecting increments (δφ) in an angular position of the worm, and... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070098477 - Printer with worm-driven feed roller: A printing system including: a feed roller engaging a print substrate for intermittently advancing the same, a printhead arranged at a path of the substrate and configured to print an image composed of sub-images that are printed in successive advancing steps of the substrate, a worm wheel drivingly connected to... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch