Patents by Inventor Syozo Kitamura

Syozo Kitamura has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Color thermal printer
    Patent number: 5769549
    Abstract: A color thermal printer using an ink sheet having a set of three or four colorants coated or printed so as to correspond to a print area with sensor marks arranged at boundaries between the colorants. In the color thermal printer, a plurality of sensors are disposed within a print width of a thermal head and downstream from a heat line of the thermal head in an ink sheet forward direction by a predetermined distance. When the sensors have sensed the sensor marks, the ink sheet is rewound by the predetermined distance to cause the printing operation to be effected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 1995
    Date of Patent: June 23, 1998
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Fumio Kouzai, Susumu Tokumaru, Syozo Kitamura
  • Color thermal printer
    Patent number: 5466075
    Abstract: A color thermal printer using an ink sheet having a set of three or four colorants coated or printed so as to correspond to a print area with sensor marks arranged at boundaries between the colorants. In the color thermal printer, a plurality of sensors are disposed within a print width of a thermal head and downstream from a heat line of the thermal head in an ink sheet forward direction by a predetermined distance. When the sensors have sensed the sensor marks, the ink sheet is rewound by the predetermined distance to cause the printing operation to be effected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 1994
    Date of Patent: November 14, 1995
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Fumio Kouzai, Susumu Tokumaru, Syozo Kitamura