By Laser Beam Or Adhesive-surface Ribbon Or Chemical Eradicator Patents (Class 400/696)
  • Patent number: 11745527
    Abstract: Pressure sensitive transfer correcting tape disclosed herein has improved resistance to bleeding from a line drawn with a ballpoint pen or the like. The pressure sensitive transfer correcting tape may include a release substrate including paper or a plastic film and a pressure sensitive transfer layer including at least a correcting and covering layer and a pressure sensitive adhesive layer laminated sequentially on one side of the release substrate. The correcting and covering layer contains porous silica and acid-modified rosin. In some examples, the oil absorption of the porous silica is preferably in a range of from 100 to 320 ml/100 g, and the acid value of the acid-modified rosin is preferably 180 mg KOH/g or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Tombow Pencil Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keitaro Kobayashi, Kazuhisa Aoki, Akihiro Sakamoto
  • Patent number: 10351690
    Abstract: A plasticizer composition for mastics, plastisols and adhesives is disclosed. The plasticizer includes at least one hydrocarbon-containing cut or a cut originating from biomass conversion and at least one fatty acid monoester. The plasticizer is free of phthalates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: Total Marketing Services
    Inventors: Franck Bardin, Thorsten Bauer
  • Patent number: 9216592
    Abstract: A method of preparing reusable paper, including receiving at an erasing device an enhanced paper with less than 5% cellulose fibers and with images embedded thereon, illuminating the images on the paper with a light beam until ablating the images to form an erased paper, wherein the light beam illuminates the paper with a fluence that would damage paper made with a higher percentage of cellulose fibers, and outputting the erased paper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: R.E.E. PAPER TECHNOLOGIES LTD.
    Inventors: Barak M. Yekutiely, Elliott R. Silcoff
  • Patent number: 8941702
    Abstract: In accordance with one embodiment, an erasing apparatus includes a paper feed tray configured to feed a sheet, a reading unit configured to read an image on the sheet, an erasing unit configured to erase the image on the sheet, a cutting apparatus configured to cut the sheet allowed to be cut, a reject box configured to accumulate the sheet which is judged to be not-reusable and a control unit configured to judge the category of the sheet based on the output of the reading unit and change the conveyance destination of the sheet according to the category of the sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hideaki Fukaya
  • Patent number: 8899855
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a erasing apparatus includes: a paper feeding section configured to feed a recording medium on which a erasable image is recorded to a conveying path; a conveying section configured to convey the recording medium along the conveying path; a erasing section configured to erase a color of the image on the recording medium; a sensor configured to detect the recording medium conveyed through the erasing section by the conveying section; and a control section configured to perform, if the sensor detects occurrence of a jam of the recording medium, control to convey the recording medium present in the conveying path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Taki, Ken Iguchi, Isao Yahata, Takahiro Kawaguchi, Hiroyuki Taguchi, Hiroyuki Tsuchihashi, Yoshiaki Sugizaki, Kikuo Mizutani, Chiaki Iizuka, Hidetoshi Yokochi, Toshiaki Oshiro, Hiroyuki Hazu, Yoici Yamaguchi, Hiroyuki Sugiyama, Yuichi Saito, Jun Ishii
  • Patent number: 6565657
    Abstract: A hand device for transferring a film, of, for example, adhesive, covering, or colored material, from a backing strip to a substrate. A supply spool and a take-up spool for the backing strip are rotatably mounted in a housing. An applicator tip is arranged on the housing and includes an application edge around which the backing strip runs. Furthermore, a brake mechanism, active during the functional operation of the hand device is provided. The brake mechanism has a locking device which interacts with one of the spools. To guarantee a compact design and economical fabrication, the locking device is arranged to be integral with the applicator tip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2003
    Assignee: BIC Deutschland GmbH & Co.
    Inventor: Winfried Huthmacher
  • Patent number: 6521045
    Abstract: A clutch mechanism having an easy-to-manufacture and inexpensive constitution, by making use of frictional engaging force in thrust direction, in a coat film transfer tool of automatic winding type. At least at the feed reel side, a clutch mechanism is provided between a driven member of a tape winding portion and a drive side rotary gear for rotating and driving it, and its power transmission makes use of the frictional engaging force in thrust direction between the driven member and drive side rotary gear. This frictional engaging force can be set by properly adjusting the dimensional relation in thrust direction between the mutual constituent members, and therefore the designing and manufacturing conditions of the constituent members are less strict, manufacture is easy, assembling is easy, and hence the manufacturing cost and device cost can be lowered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2003
    Assignee: Seed Rubber Company Limited
    Inventors: Kouhei Koyama, Shigeru Tamai, Masatoshi Shintani
  • Patent number: 6500259
    Abstract: A refill type coat film transfer tool, specifically a tape cartridge for a coat film transfer type having a support main body of lightweight and simple structure, capable of replacing a coat film transfer tape easily, securely and promptly. The support main body has a support base plate for rotatably supporting the opposite side ends of rotary shafts of the pay-off reel and take-up reel supported detachably and rotatably on a rotary support shaft of the case of the coat film transfer tool, and this support base plate has a flat skeletal structure having an outer contour corresponding to the inner contour of the case. Therefore as compared with the conventional plastic container, the rate of use of materials in the entire device of the support main body itself is substantially curtailed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2002
    Assignee: Seed Rubber Company Limited
    Inventors: Shigeru Tamai, Kouhei Koyama, Masatoshi Shintani
  • Patent number: 6454856
    Abstract: A device for winding correction tape in a corrective film dispenser comprising a supplying reel and winding reel arranged between upper and lower cases and a tape guider projected through the front ends of the cases through which a correction tape with a coating of correction film applied thereon is fed from the supplying reel to the winding reel and wherein said winding reel with a gear is arranged in the front of the cases and the supplying reel is arranged in the rear of the cases, and wherein a first auxiliary reel with a gear is arranged between the winding reel and the supplying reel and is engaged rotatively with the gear of the winding reel, and a second auxiliary reel is arranged between the supplying reel and the first auxiliary reel, said correction tape being fed from the supplying reel to the winding reel via circumferential surface of the auxiliary reels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2002
    Inventor: Gye Ho Jung
  • Patent number: 6171397
    Abstract: A film (e.a., a paint film) transfer device includes case, a supply reel around which paint film transfer tape is wound, and a take-up reel for taking-up used tape which is supplied from the supply reel and used. The supply and take-up reels are rotatably mounted in the case. The outermost peripheries of the supply reel and the take-up reel are constantly contacting each other, such that the take-up reel is rotated as the supply reel is rotated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2001
    Assignee: Kotobuki & Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoshihide Mitsuya
  • Patent number: 6125903
    Abstract: An adhesive transfer device is provided, which can lead a separable paper sheet after adhesive transfer to the outside of its case so that the separable paper sheet is not collected therein, is not consumable but capable of being re-used by renewing a tape roll, and permits the user to transfer the adhesive while watching the end of a transfer member from above with its case in a laid-down state. A tape roll support 6 has a first bevel gear 7, and a second bevel gear 2 meshing with the first, bevel gear and having its axis, crossing the axis of the first bevel gear, has fewer teeth than the first bevel gear, and is formed on one side of a feed roller 8, which is disposed on the extension of the separable paper sheet 4 returning, after transfer of adhesive, from the transfer member into the case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2000
    Assignee: Toyo Chemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiromichi Uchida
  • Patent number: 5942036
    Abstract: A correction tape roller device which can be easily refilled is provided. It is difficult to shorten the distance between the first and second shafts in the conventional tape roller device of the prior art thereby causing the prior art device to be of a relatively large volume. The correction tape roller device of the present invention uses an inscribed plate and a pinion which reduces the distance between the first and second shafts and improves the an entire spatial use efficiency. A tape guide can be disassembled from a main body of the correction tape roller device, as necessary, and the angle of assembly can be altered, which facilitates correction of typographical errors on paper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 24, 1999
    Inventor: Kwang-Ho You
  • Patent number: 5785437
    Abstract: A tape cartridge detachably attached to a refill type coating film transfer tool that allows replacement of coating film transfer tapes, and formed in a compact size and simple structure using fewer components. The tape cartridge has a compact size and simple structure, comprising a pay-out reel with a coating film transfer tape wound thereabout and a winding reel for collecting a used tape rotatably provided in a support base in a form of a flat plate, and the reels are detachably engaged, respectively, with a pay-out rotation part and a winding rotation part rotatably provided in a case of the coating film transfer tool for integral movement therewith. In order to replace a tape cartridge, the support base is placed on the rotation parts, while the reels are in engagement with the rotation parts, respectively, then, the tape is set to a head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 28, 1998
    Assignee: Seed Rubber Company Limited
    Inventors: Kouhei Koyama, Shigeru Tamai, Masatoshi Shintani
  • Patent number: 5759270
    Abstract: This invention relates to a correction tape adhesiver for correcting a mistyped letter comprising a rotatable tape guider which may turn its direction according to the gripping posture and/or using direction of the user. Said tape guider is formed separately from the case at the backside edge thereof and combined with the guide sill so as to ensure rotation of the tape guider to the certain extent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 1996
    Date of Patent: June 2, 1998
    Assignee: Katsuyuki Miyazaki
    Inventor: Jung Ho Lee
  • Patent number: 5709487
    Abstract: A printer is provided with a platen having a sloping plane platen surface, a medium guide path for smoothly guiding paper along the plane including the platen surface, a transparent open/close paper guide positioned above the medium guide path, and two pairs of drive rollers and driven rollers arranged along the platen, with one pair of drive roller and driven roller being disposed in an upstream direction and the other pair of drive roller and driven roller being disposed in a downstream direction with respect to the platen and the paper print movement. The printer is further provided with a ribbon cassette which makes it possible to position a linear portion of an ink ribbon in parallel to the platen surface, a mechanism for switching the linear portion of the ink ribbon between a printable position and a nonprintable position, and a mechanism for attaching a ribbon cassette to a carriage while moving it in a downwardly forward direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 1996
    Date of Patent: January 20, 1998
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takashi Yamamoto, Mutsuo Fukuoka, Masaya Funamoto
  • Patent number: 5568986
    Abstract: A printer device is provided with an erasing portion for erasing recorded items of a medium on which characters or figures have been recorded, and a recording portion for printing or copying the surface of the medium having passed through the erasing portion by color fading ink or toner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 1995
    Date of Patent: October 29, 1996
    Assignee: Rohm Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Ken Sugai
  • Patent number: 5529408
    Abstract: A thermal transfer recording and correction method, in which a thermal transfer ink layer is placed in contact with a transfer-receiving medium and is heated by heat generating elements of a thermal head in a pattern corresponding to a recording signal, is improved by preheating the ink layer. The ink layer, which is characterized by a transfer initiation temperature, is preheated by the thermal head which is heated by a preheating means. When a region of the ink layer is then further heated by the heat generating elements, the temperature of that region has a maximum and a minimum both within a range extending from the transfer initiation temperature to about 40.degree. C. higher than the transfer initiation temperature. Since the maximum and minimum temperatures are within a suppressed temperature range, an erroneous image can be more easily peeled off the transfer-receiving medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: June 25, 1996
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Haruhiko Moriguchi, Kazuhiro Nakajima, Hiroshi Sato, Masato Katayama
  • Patent number: 5350247
    Abstract: A printer capable of completely erasing printed characters while reducing noise which may be generated during the erasure. After an erase key is manipulated and the holder member is moved to its erase position, a motor is energized and driven at a motor current level of I1 and I2 from a time t0 when the erasing operation starts. A print hammer strikes onto a printing paper through a type and a correction ribbon at a hammer speed of V1. Thereafter, motor current level of I3 is applied to the motor, so that the print hammer presses the printing paper at a contacting pressure of P1. In the subsequent erasure operation, the motor current level of I11 and I12, which are smaller than I1 and I2 in the first erasure are applied to the motor. Thus, the hammer speed when striking onto the printing paper by the hammer is lower than V1. Accordingly, contacting pressure of the print hammer onto the printing paper becomes P11, which is smaller than P1 of the first erasure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 1993
    Date of Patent: September 27, 1994
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Masaya Funamoto
  • Patent number: 5269865
    Abstract: There are provided a "self-correctable" thermal transfer material and a thermal transfer recording method using the transfer material. The thermal transfer material comprises a support, a first ink layer, a second ink layer and a third ink layer disposed in this order on the support, wherein the first ink layer is a substantially non-transferable layer, the second ink layer is capable of causing separation from the first ink layer on heating; and the third ink layer comprising a thermoplastic resin and a colorant. A recorded image formed by the above-mentioned transfer material can be removed through lift-off correction, by causing the transfer material to adhere to the recorded image under heating, and separating the transfer material from the recording medium without causing separation of the second ink layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 1992
    Date of Patent: December 14, 1993
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Naoki Kushida, Yasuyuki Tamura, Takayuki Suzuki, Koichi Tohma, Masanobu Asaoka
  • Patent number: 5028157
    Abstract: A printer has a mechanism for erasing a printed character by impacting a type through an erasing ribbon, and a stepping motor for rotating a type wheel to select a character. In an erasing operation, the type wheel is rotated by the stepping motor by a small rotation angle so that the type is superpositioned on the printed character.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 1989
    Date of Patent: July 2, 1991
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Noriyuki Kikugawa
  • Patent number: 5024545
    Abstract: In a printed character printed with a printing apparatus provided with a plurality of type elements and a print hammer, the specified left or right edge portion thereof has ink adhered heavily on the paper, and this specified edge portion is difficult to be erased when erasing a wrongly printed character with a correction ribbon.In the disclosed character erasable printing apparatus, after moving the carriage from the print position by a predetermined minute distance in the printing direction or in its opposite direction toward the specified edge portion, a first hammering for erasure is carried out, and subsequently after moving the carriage in the direction opposite to above-described movement, at least, and without feeding the correction ribbon relative to the carriage, a second hammering for erasure is carried out with an unused fresh portion of the correction ribbon made to face the specified edge portion having residual ink.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 1989
    Date of Patent: June 18, 1991
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Satoshi Yoshimoto, Masaya Funamoto
  • Patent number: 4950536
    Abstract: An invention relates to a pressure-activatible correcting tape, which has a conventional carrier and a lift-off layer for removing typed or printed type images, the lift-off layer containing a wax, a binder and optionally further additives. This correcting tape is characterized in that the lift-off layer contains approximately 5 to 35% by weight of butyl rubber, approximately 30 to 90% by weight of wax and approximately 0.1 to 5% by weight of a dispersent having a dispersing action in an aqueous medium for the aforementioned substances. The lift-off layer can be produced by means of an aqueous coating liquid, which is environmentally advantageous compared with organic dispersents. This correcting tape can be used without restriction and independently of the type of typewriter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 1988
    Date of Patent: August 21, 1990
    Assignee: Caribonum Limited
    Inventors: Ian Hogarth, Andrew Scott, Christina Abbott, Robert I. Wilkinson
  • Patent number: 4923315
    Abstract: A printer having a print head adapted to be pressed against or released from a print paper mounted on a platen, wherein a print operation or an erase operation is performed by moving the print head in press contact with the print paper through an ink ribbon. The improvement comprises control means for relasing the print head from the print paper after a predetermined amount of printing or erasing is successively performed with the print head being held in press contact with the print paper, thus preventing defective winding and meandering of the ink ribbon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 1988
    Date of Patent: May 8, 1990
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Koshiro Yamaguchi, Toshio Takahashi, Yasunori Kitazawa, Hiroshi Hattori
  • Patent number: 4913566
    Abstract: Disclosed is a typing device wherein relational data such as correct spelling word may substitute the printed word. When the printed data is substituted by the relational data, the succeeding printed data posterior to said printed data to be substituted is visually represented on a display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 1988
    Date of Patent: April 3, 1990
    Assignee: Brother Kobyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Sakai, Yoshio Sugiura, Satoshi Furukawa
  • Patent number: 4900171
    Abstract: A means for assuring ink ribbon and correction tape compatibility in a device which utilizes a first cassette having an ink ribbon therein and second cassette having a correction tape therein including a switch means in the device that controls the on-off condition of the device, and means located on one of the cassettes which will activate the on-off switch only when the device contains an ink ribbon in the first cassette which is functionally compatible with the correction tape in the second cassette, such as, for example, functional compatibility between a single-strike ink ribbon and a lift-off correction tape, or functional compatibility between a multiple-strike ink ribbon and a cover-up correction tape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 1987
    Date of Patent: February 13, 1990
    Assignee: Smith Corona Corporation
    Inventors: Hans W. Mueller, Samuel D. Cappotto
  • Patent number: 4891260
    Abstract: A transfer ribbon for applying a film of a cover material to a substrate, especially a paper substrate provided with markings to be covered or to be provided with a stripe of color from a coloring agent contained in the cover material, has a carrier-foil strip to which a cover layer is applied and an adhesive layer applied to that cover layer. The adhesion between the cover layer and the foil is less than the adhesion between the cover layer and the adhesive layer so that when the adhesive side of the ribbon is pressed against the substrate, the foil can be withdrawn to leave the cover layer, containing the coloring agent, thereon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 1988
    Date of Patent: January 2, 1990
    Assignee: Pelikan Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Ernst Kunkel, Petra Bubolz, Wolfhard Rutz, Sigo Muschter
  • Patent number: 4836106
    Abstract: This invention describes a direct master for offset printing. The master comprises a thin metal layer, a thermoplastic layer disposed on the metal layer, and a conductive oxide layer evaporated on the metal layer. When this master is subjected to electrical pulses from the styli of a printer, some of the thermoplastic layer diffuses through the oxide layer changing selected regions of the oxide layer to oleophilic regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 1987
    Date of Patent: June 6, 1989
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Ali Afzali-Ardakani, Keith S. Pennington
  • Patent number: 4804283
    Abstract: The invention provides a ribbon feed device wherein a ribbon take-up mechanism located on a ribbon frame which is mounted for up and down pivotal motion on a carrier and carrying thereon an elongated ribbon along a platen takes up the ribbon in response to upward pivotal motion of the ribbon frame in order to effect printing of a character or erasing of a printed character. During downward pivotal motion of the ribbon frame, the path of the ribbon is bent by a pressing member secured to the carrier to remove possible slacking of the ribbon which may appear along a ribbon feeding route upon printing or erasing operation so as to apply suitable tension to the ribbon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 1987
    Date of Patent: February 14, 1989
    Assignee: Tokyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Minoru Imai
  • Patent number: 4786195
    Abstract: A thermal transfer printer which can simply and assuredly erase a symbol recorded in error with thermal transfer ink on record paper. The printer comprises, in addition to a printing transfer ribbon and a printing thermal head, an erasing ribbon carrying thereon a layer of a thermally adhesive resin material, and an erasing thermal head which is operated, during erasing operation, to generate heat to melt the thermally adhesive resin on said erasing ribbon sufficient to adhere to the thermally fusible ink of a symbol printed on record paper so that the ink may be removed from the paper as the erasing ribbon is moved away from the record paper. The printing and erasing thermal heads are mounted in a juxtaposed relationship on a movable carriage, and the erasing thermal head has a greater heat generating area than the printing thermal head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 1986
    Date of Patent: November 22, 1988
    Assignee: Alps Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ikuo Hibino, Tadashi Nakamura, Koichi Umeki
  • Patent number: 4773778
    Abstract: A fabric printer ribbon impregnated with a transfer medium comprised of a vehicle liquid and coloring agent dispersed in the vehicle liquid. The fabric printer ribbon may further contain property-improving additives. As the coloring agent, the ribbon contains a color reaction product in the form of a Lewis-acid/Lewis base color complex comprised of an organic chromogen and a color developer. The coloring agent is dissolved and/or dispersed as fine particles in the vehicle liquid. Such a fabric printer ribbon displays the advantage of correctability by means of an inhibitor of the color reaction. The corrected sheet can be typed over in customary fashion by means of the fabric printer ribbon in a second track of a fabric printer ribbon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 1986
    Date of Patent: September 27, 1988
    Assignee: Pelikan Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Guenter Pietsch, Hubertus Greschenz, Karl-Heinz Bohne
  • Patent number: 4762431
    Abstract: Roller 1 is heated to a temperature at which correctable thermal printing is caused to be better fixed to the paper and to be darker, while lift-off correction may be subsequently conducted. Roller 1 is spaced from printhead 3 a distance sufficient to permit reading of immediately prior typing. Both roller 1 and printhead 3 are mounted on carrier 5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 1986
    Date of Patent: August 9, 1988
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Clifford M. Denny, Hugh T. Findlay, Stephen A. Popyach, Deh C. Tao
  • Patent number: 4749289
    Abstract: In a printer for printing an attributed character by printing a character part and an attribute part separately, the invented printer or typewriter is so constructed that only an attribute part, e.g., an underline part or a bold face part, is printed in case a printed character is detected to already have the attribute, i.e., is underlined, or bold face, thereby preventing a character part of the printed character from being double printed. This results in improved quality in printed characters and in complete clear character erasures. The printer is also effective for overprinting attribute parts to over a desired range of printed characters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 1987
    Date of Patent: June 7, 1988
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshio Sugiura, Kiyoshi Yamakawa
  • Patent number: 4746388
    Abstract: A lift-off tape capable of being used many times which comprises a foundation and an adhesive layer provided on one major surface of the foundation, said adhesive layer containing a plasticizer capable of plasticizing a polyamide resin which is a main component of the vehicle of a correctable ink. The lift-off tape can be used many times to remove erroneous typed impressions of a correctable ink which contains a polyamide resin as a main component of the vehicle thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 1986
    Date of Patent: May 24, 1988
    Assignee: Fuji Kagakushi Kogyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masatsugu Inaba, Takumi Murasaki
  • Patent number: 4746933
    Abstract: A thermal head has heating resistors for thermal image recording and a lift-off heating resistor for ink lift-off. In image recording, both resistors are energized to maintain the ink adhesive to a recording sheet until an ink ribbon is separated from the recording sheet. In the lift-off operation, only the former resistors are energized but the latter positioned behind is deactivated, so that the ink already deposited on the sheet adheres to the ink ribbon, is cooled due to the deactivation of the latter resistor and is lifted off by the ink ribbon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 1986
    Date of Patent: May 24, 1988
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Osamu Asakura
  • Patent number: 4724445
    Abstract: A thermal transfer printer erases previously recorded characters by applying heating energy of higher surface density than that used to originally transfer thermally fusible material onto a recording sheet. A thermal transfer tape made of a polyester film and a layer of thermally fusible material is interposed between a thermal head of the printer and the recording sheet at the position to be erased. The thermally fusible material has a higher adhering affinity for the polyester film than for the recording sheet at the higher heating energy level and thus fusible material previously recorded on the recording sheet adheres to the tape at the higher energy level. When the tape is pulled away from the recording sheet, the previously recorded character adheres to the tape and is pulled away with it.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 1986
    Date of Patent: February 9, 1988
    Assignee: Alps Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshiaki Amano, Ikuo Hibino
  • Patent number: 4700200
    Abstract: A thermal printer wherein a character or symbol printed on record paper by transfer can be corrected or erased by suitably controlling the printing energy applied to a thermal head, without the necessity of provision of a specific mechanism for correcting such printed characters or symbols. The printer comprises means for applying printing energy higher than printing energy for transfer recording to said thermal head to erase a character or symbol printed on the record paper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 1986
    Date of Patent: October 13, 1987
    Assignee: Alps Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Ikuo Hibino
  • Patent number: 4671687
    Abstract: An eraser of the present invention comprises a magazine having set therein a carriage means for mounting a freely turning first reel loaded with an erasing ink transfer tape and a second reel for winding up the used erasing ink transfer tape and a head for bending or curving the erasing ink transfer tape before it is wound up by the second reel wherein at least the bent or curved portion of the tape is projecting with respect to the magazine. The known defects of the conventional erasing ink, such as requiring a relatively long waiting time before rewriting, difficulty of rewriting due to brush unevenness and inconvenience caused by drying and solidifying of erasing ink as well as the fatal defect of the conventional eraser of transfer type that it is usable only for typewriter, is eliminated with present invention. The invention provides a handy eraser that is quite easy to use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 1985
    Date of Patent: June 9, 1987
    Inventor: Shigeru Tamai
  • Patent number: 4654674
    Abstract: A thermal printer for thermal transfer printing, adapted to use a printing ribbon carrying a fusible ink layer and an erasing ribbon carrying a thermoadhesive resin layer. The thermal head of the thermal printer has a printing heating unit disposed opposite to a platen with the printing ribbon extended therebetween and an erasing heating unit disposed beside the printing heating unit and opposite to the platen with the erasing ribbon extended therebetween. In correcting a misprint, the misprint is located opposite to the erasing heating unit and the erasing ribbon is heated and pressed against the misprint with the erasing heating unit to lift off the misprint. After lifting-off the misprint, the corrected portion is located opposite to the printing heating unit for correct printing operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 1986
    Date of Patent: March 31, 1987
    Assignee: Alps Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ikuo Hibino, Koichi Umeki
  • Patent number: 4651162
    Abstract: A printing method for a thermal printer having a heat-sensitive recording medium containing a coloring material interposed between a recording paper laid on a platen and a thermal head. For printing, the coloring material is transferred from the recording medium to the paper by the print energy of the thermal head. A low print energy level and a high print energy level are respectively set in advance and during the printing operation energy of the former level is applied to the recording medium while during the correcting operation energy of the former level is applied to the recording medium to bond the printed characters on the recording paper to the recording medium. In preparation for the correcting operation, the thermal head is preheated in its head-up state at which stage it is separated from the platen. Printing and correcting operations are executed on the basis of information on the head surface temperature detected by a temperature sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 1986
    Date of Patent: March 17, 1987
    Assignee: Alps Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tadashi Nakamura, Ikuo Hibino
  • Patent number: 4637744
    Abstract: A cartridge for a typing ribbon and spools for a correcting ribbon are mounted on a common frame which can tilt about a spindle. In a lowered position of the frame the typing line behind a daisy wheel is visible. The frame is raised by a first stroke to the position shown to dispose the typing ribbon over the typing point on the platen. A longer stroke raises the correcting ribbon to the typing point and this longer stroke also actuates an automatic ratchet wheel and pawl type of feed mechanism for the correcting ribbon. The two strokes of the frame are controlled by a disc comprising two cam tracks with a common part and separate parts having different degrees of eccentricity relative to the common part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 1983
    Date of Patent: January 20, 1987
    Assignee: Ing. C. Olivetti & C., S.p.A.
    Inventors: Franco Valle, Pietro Musso
  • Patent number: 4634629
    Abstract: A lift-off tape capable of being used many times which comprises a foundation and an adhesive layer provided on one major surface of the foundation, said adhesive layer containing a plasticizer capable of plasticizing a polyamide resin which is a main component of the vehicle of a correctable ink. The lift-off tape can be used many times to remove erroneous typed impressions of a correctable ink which contains a polyamide resin as a main component of the vehicle thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 1985
    Date of Patent: January 6, 1987
    Assignee: Fuji Kagakushi Kogyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masatsugu Inaba, Takumi Murasaki
  • Patent number: 4572687
    Abstract: Ribbon (22) in thermal printing has an outer layer which adheres to printed characters of intermediate temperatures, lower than printing temperatures. The printhead (7) has a column of electrodes (9) which sweep across the character area. Erase mode selector (16) causes erase of the same character twice, first at a temperature level moderately more than the normal erase level and one at a temperature moderately less than the normal erase level. Erasure in that dual mode is generally effective even for extreme conditions of paper, environment and other influences.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 1984
    Date of Patent: February 25, 1986
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Donald F. Croley, Stanley Dyer
  • Patent number: 4547088
    Abstract: The ink layer of a thermal transfer printing ribbon is overcoated with a hold-off layer which serves to make the resulting printing more easily correctable. The hold-off layer operates by preventing penetration by the ink layer into the substrate being printed upon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 1980
    Date of Patent: October 15, 1985
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Meredith D. Shattuck
  • Patent number: 4545693
    Abstract: Ribbon (22) in thermal printing has an outer layer which adheres to printed characters at intermediate temperatures, lower than printing temperatures. The printhead (7) has a column of electrodes (9) which sweep across the character area. Lift-off is accomplished by the pattern control (40) controlling the current source (38) to provide rapid, square wave pulses displaced in phase 180 degrees at adjoining electrodes (9). The high level of the pulses is about that of the level at printing, and the pulses are sufficiently rapid so that their net effect is to raise the outer layer ribbon (22) to the intermediate temperature. At areas corresponding to underlines of characters, duration of the up period is longer. Good, long term reliability is achieved by the significant erase level being very close to the print level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 1983
    Date of Patent: October 8, 1985
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: John C. Bartlett, Alan E. Bohnhoff, Donald F. Croley, Stanley Dyer, Kenneth E. Edds, Frank J. Horlander, Donald W. Stafford
  • Patent number: 4521471
    Abstract: An article comprising a backing, a silicone pressure sensitive adhesive, and optionally, a silicone release coating is provided for effecting removal of vertically cohesive inks from cellulosic materials. There is also provided the process of making and using the article.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 1982
    Date of Patent: June 4, 1985
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: Duane F. Merrill
  • Patent number: 4472073
    Abstract: A cartridge for a typing ribbon and spools for a correcting ribbon are mounted on a common frame which can tilt about a spindle. In a lowered position of the frame the typing line behind a daisy wheel is visible. The frame is raised by a first stroke to the position shown to dispose the typing ribbon over the typing point on the platen. A longer stroke raises the correcting ribbon to the typing point and this longer stroke also actuates an automatic ratchet wheel and pawl type of feed mechanism for the correcting ribbon. The two strokes of the frame are controlled by a disc comprising two cam tracks with a common part and separate parts having different degrees of eccentricity relative to the common part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 1981
    Date of Patent: September 18, 1984
    Assignee: Ing. C. Olivetti & C., S.p.A.
    Inventors: Franco Valle, Pietro Musso
  • Patent number: 4453839
    Abstract: A thermal ribbon particularly suited to be used once for printing at one temperature and for lift-off correction at a lower temperature. The bottom, resistive layer is a blend of an aliphatic polyurethane and a urethane acrylic copolymer with conductive carbon black. The next layer is 1000 angstroms thick aluminum. The next layer is the release layer, of an ethylene organic acid copolymer, a low-melting material. The top layer is an ink layer containing ethylene vinyl acetate and polyethyacrylate. The resistive layer has a light dusting of graphite. Low print currents for both printing and lift-off correction are achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 1982
    Date of Patent: June 12, 1984
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Hugh T. Findlay, Keith A. Jones
  • Patent number: 4453167
    Abstract: A printer has a head mounted on a carriage moving on and along guide rails for printing. An error correcting head is further provided on the carriage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 1982
    Date of Patent: June 5, 1984
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Junichi Motoyoshi
  • Patent number: 4426169
    Abstract: A lift-off adhesively erasable typewriter ribbon contains, in a pigmentatious layer on the substrate strip, in addition to the pigment and a resin binder, a halogenated hydrocarbon modifier containing at least 14 carbon atoms serving to embrittle the resin binder and facilitate transfer of the layer from the ribbon to the paper during the writing process and to allow clean and adhesive removal of print if a correction is required.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 1981
    Date of Patent: January 17, 1984
    Assignee: Franz Buttner AG
    Inventor: Heinz Hartmann
  • Patent number: 4413266
    Abstract: The technology encompassed by the practice of this invention includes apparatus for ink jet printing under the control of electronic circuitry and ink jet printing under the control of an operator, for example, a typewriter. Broadly, the technology presented in accordance with the principles of this invention utilizes an ink eradicator which removes indicia of the ink by chemical reaction. The character of the eradicator fluid is such that another fluid may be utilized either together therewith or separately to neutralize the residue from the chemical reaction so that printing can readily be accomplished in the location where erasure has occurred. Specifically, practice of this invention is contemplated with means that applies the eradicator fluid over the location on a surface where printing has occurred by ink jet droplets as well as over an entire area thereon within which there is ink jet printing for which a change is to be achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 1981
    Date of Patent: November 1, 1983
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Ari Aviram, Zalata Kovac, Robert A. Myers