Including Movable Printing Anvil Within Type-head Patents (Class 400/170)
  • Thermal print head
    Patent number: 4651164
    Abstract: A thermal printhead for use in a thermal recording machine includes a substrate on which a plurality of heat-producing elements are formed in the form of a linear array and a plurality of I.C. driver chips provided along one side of the linear array, and the I.C. driver chip includes output pads formed in a line spaced apart from one another on its surface along one side thereof. Using such an I.C. driver chip, the linear array density of 8 elements/mm and thus recording density of 8 dots/mm is obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 1986
    Date of Patent: March 17, 1987
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shuro Abe, Yoshiro Yabuki, Yasuhiko Takamatsu, Takayuki Yamaguchi, Masatoshi Ohta, Eiji Nakamura
  • Compact printer
    Patent number: 4494885
    Abstract: A compact printer having a typefont belt constituting a typefont wheel maintained under tension on a support, wherein the platen is rendered displaceable in a direction away from the typefont wheel after the completion of the printing operation, and the front end of a hammer provided in the typefont wheel is inclined upwards.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 1982
    Date of Patent: January 22, 1985
    Assignees: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Canon Denshi Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Satoshi Watanabe, Toru Wakasawa, Hirofumi Hirano, Hiroshi Nishizawa