Typewriting machines inventions 06/09

20090162123 - Platen incorporating an rfid coupling device: Provided is an apparatus, such as a printer, that includes a media modification component, such as a printhead, and an opposing member, such as a platen. The opposing member opposes the media modification component and is configured to manipulate media for modification by the media modification component. An RFID interrogator... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20090162124 - Keyboard: A keyboard is used to provide comfort to users' wrists. The keyboard includes a main body, a cable, and an air cushion. The cable is connected to the main body. The air cushion is connected to the cable.... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090162125 - Printer, printer feed drive method, and computer program therefor: Provided herein is a printer, including a printing head that executes printing in units of columns of dots; a feed roller that feeds a print medium in synchrony with driving of the printing head; a motor that constitutes a drive source for the feed roller; a memory section that memorizes... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20090162126 - Method for regulating a web tension and/or register: The present invention relates to a method for regulating a web tension and/or a register of a processing machine used to process a material web (101), in particular a shaftless printing press (100), the material web (101) being processed in at least one processing unit (111-114, 121-124, 131-134); the elasticity... Agent: Striker, Striker & Stenby

20090162127 - Image recording device and its control method: This is an image recording device for recording images on a carried recording medium in a continuous sheet and cutting down the recording medium on which images are recorded into pieces of paper of a prescribed size by a cutting unit driven in synchronization with the carrying speed of the... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, P.C.

20090154977 - Method and apparatus for adjusting a gap in a printer: The illustrative embodiments described herein provide an apparatus and method for adjusting a gap in a printer. The apparatus includes the printer that has a print head transport shaft. The print head is slidably coupled to the transport shaft. The apparatus includes an adjusting plate comprising a groove. The adjusting... Agent: Duke W. Yee Yee & Associates, P.C.

20090154978 - Media for use with activation printer and activation printer therefor: Media for use with an activation printer, the media comprising at least one surface having an array of pixels deposited thereon, each pixel containing at least one activatable colourant, wherein different pixels have different colourants and the pixels are arranged in a predetermined pattern, such that, in use, a multicolour... Agent: John P. De Luca

20090154979 - Ink ribbon unit and method of judgment of ink ribbon jamming: Magnetic force lines 51 are generated in the direction from a first limited portion 52 of an inside peripheral face 50a of a ribbon-delivering cylindrical core toward an opposing second limited portion 54. A first magnet is fixed at the first limited portion: a second magnet is fixed at the... Agent: Patenttm.us

20090154980 - Design structure for controlling shared access of a media tray: A design structure embodied in a machine readable storage medium for designing, manufacturing, and/or testing a design for controlling shared access of a media tray is disclosed. The design structure includes operations that include monitoring communications between a virtualized media tray and a computing device currently connected to the virtualized... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20090154981 - Computer wrist rest for notebook computers: An apparatus for relieving and preventing repetitive stress on a portion of a user's hand while using the keyboard and/or a mousing device on a notebook computer, the apparatus comprising: an elongated pad portion smaller in width than the bottom portion of the notebook computer; and a mousing opening cutout... Agent: Meredith & Keyhani, PLLC

20090148217 - Thermal printer: A thermal printer includes a printer body, a cover attached to the printer body so as to be rockable between closed and open states, a platen roller provided on the printer body or cover, a thermal head provided on the cover or printer body and configured to be opposed to... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.L.P.

20090148218 - Printer: A printer according to an embodiment of the present invention is a printer which transports a recording medium, provided with a plurality of laminated sheets, along a predetermined transport path including a curved portion. The printer is provided with a dot head for printing the recording medium, a platen roller... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.L.P.

20090148219 - Reduced impact keyboard with cushioned keys: A keyboard for use with a computing device and a method of manufacturing a keyboard key are provided. One disclosed keyboard includes a plurality of keys, each key having a key cap including a perimeter wall and a void positioned within the perimeter wall and opening to a top of... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090148220 - Label printing apparatus: A label printing apparatus comprising a cassette receiving bay arranged to receive a cassette; and a cassette positioning mechanism. The cassette positioning mechanism is arranged to move a cassette inserted into the cassette receiving bay into a position in which printing can take place.... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20090148221 - Label printing apparatus: A label printing apparatus comprising a cassette receiving bay arranged to receive a cassette; and an engagement member. The engagement member is movable between a first position, in which the engagement member is engaged with the cassette, and a second position in which the engagement member is disengaged with the... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20090148222 - Label printing apparatus: A cassette is provided which includes a supply of label material and a brake. The brake has a first position and a second position. In the first position, the supply is clamped by the brake. In the second position, the supply is removable from the cassette.... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20090148223 - Hinge with sliding pivot transfer: Exemplary embodiments provide for a method and apparatus for moving a cover of a device relative to a base of the device to provide access to an interior space. An indication to open a cover coupled to a base is received. Responsive to receiving the indication, the cover is sequentially... Agent: Duke W. Yee Yee & Associates, P.C.

20090142117 - 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

20090142118 - Distribution of printer paper: The invention relates to the distribution of printer paper via a housing flap of a printer, the housing flap being rotatably mounted about an axle by use of a hinge, and at least one central part of the hinge may be a printing paper opening having at least a width... Agent: K&l Gates LLP