Rack, Grate Bar Extension Patents (Class 460/120)
  • Patent number: 4636810
    Abstract: A thermal printer is capable of maintaining the heating elements thereof at a constant temperature to achieve uniform print density and to avoid abnormal heating of the heating elements. For this purpose each heating element receives a stronger driving pulse at the first printing operation in a scan line and receives a weaker driving pulse at the subsequent printing operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 1983
    Date of Patent: January 13, 1987
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Osamu Asakura, Mineo Nozaki, Masasumi Nagashima, Yoshio Uchikata