Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Denshi Kabushiki Kaisha

Hiroatsu Kondo

Toshiaki Ozawa

Yasuaki Yamada

Hiroyuki Ueda

Hiroharu Nakajima

Hideo Saito

Osamu Asakura

Tetsuya Kawanabe

Mineo Nozaki

Junichi Yoshikawa

Shigeru Okamura

Hiroyuki Inoue

Hirofumi Hirano

Takashi Saito

Toshihiko Bekki

Toshihide Wada

Koh Hasegawa

Junichi Asano

Richard Nibley

Hiroyuki Hagiwara

Hideaki Miyakawa

Takuma Kanno

Tadashi Kimura

An information processing apparatus includes an input portion for inputting information, a recording portion capable of recording information input by the input portion onto a recording medium and a moving mechanism capable of vertically moving the recording portion and holding the recording portion at a predetermined position.

Information processing and recording apparatus with two recording medium

A printing apparatus system includes a plurality of type units each having a plurality of type elements and each being different from the others. Each type unit may be mounted in the apparatus. A detector detects which of the type units is so mounted and produces a detection signal representative thereof. The printing pressure with which each type element is imprinted on a print medium is determined in accordance with the particular type wheel mounted in the apparatus as indicated by the detection signal. Additionally, the amount of advance of an ink ribbon for imprinting a type element on a type unit is determined in accordance with the particular type unit mounted in the apparatus, again as indicated by the detection signal.

Serial printing apparatus with sentence memory and display

Serial printing apparatus with sentence memory and display having

Document processing apparatus and method for printing a document read

Serial printing apparatus including an error correcting capability and

There is an output apparatus which prints and outputs onto an ink ribbon in an electronic typewriter or the like. This output apparatus comprises: an output head to output a desired character through an ink ribbon; a cassette in which the ink ribbon is enclosed; a guide device to move the ink ribbon pulled out of the cassette in the direction having an angle of inclination with respect to the vertical direction; and a control unit to control the ink ribbon feed mechanism so as to stop the advance of the ink ribbon such that the length of ink ribbon pulled out of the cassette is made almost constant before and after the movement of the ink ribbon by the guide device. One motor is commonly used for print paper feed, ribbon feed, and ribbon lift up/down operations. The type wheel having a plurality of type elements is bilaterally rotated and its rotation amount is properly controlled to detect the home position of the wheel. The ribbon feed mechanism is controlled by the heteromorphic or noncircular rotary cam having grooves of different kinds of radii. The ink ribbon feed operation and the correction ribbon feed and lift up/down operations are also performed by the rotary cam. With this apparatus, the ink and correction ribbons can be efficiently used and the operation timing of the carriage can be accurately controlled.

Output apparatus having a rotatable type wheel

A recording apparatus has a memory for storing information entered from a key input device, whereby the stored information can be used to rapidly and precisely position erasing means at a previously recorded indicium for erasure thereof. The apparatus may also have at least one drive system which controls the printing pressure, the amount of printing ribbon feeding, or the amount of printing sheet feeding, and a memory for storing information to regulate the drive systems. One embodiment of the apparatus is an electronic typewriter.

By the driving of drive means for the vertically moving member of a type wheel in one way and resiliently holding means for the type wheel, the type wheel is moved upwardly to a position suitable for printing with the vertically moving member of the type wheel by pivotal movement, whereafter the resilient holding of the type wheel by the resiliently holding means is released by the driving of the drive means in the other way, whereby only the vertically moving member of the type wheel is contained in a type wheel containing housing, and by the driving of the drive means in one way after the termination of printing, the type wheel is resiliently held on the vertically moving member of the type wheel by the resiliently holding means, whereafter by the driving of the drive means in the other way, the type wheel, with the vertically moving member of the type wheel, is contained in the type wheel containing housing.

Automatically interchangeable type wheel type printing apparatus

A printing apparatus includes a print wheel having a vertical lien character, a minus symbol character, and an underline symbol character. A first control moves a carriage on which the print wheel is mounted at one of two pitches and a second control advances a printing paper for receiving printing at one of two pitches in a direction generally perpendicular to the direction of movement of the carriage. Respective keys select the vertical line character and underline character for printing and the printing and paper-advancing pitches. One key signals repeat actuation of either the key selecting the vertical line character or the underline character and a memory stores actuation of the key for selecting the vertical line character. Printing of a vertical line character and advancement of paper is achieved by a control in response to actuation of the repeat signaling key, if the memory stores actuation of the vertical character key. Another control clears the memory in response to operation of any key other than the repeat signaling key.

Printing apparatus including error correction and memory means, for

A printer of the automatically interchangeable character wheel type includes a platen formed lengthwise of the printer to support one surface of a printing sheet, and a carriage guided so as to be reciprocally movable along the platen. The carriage carries thereon contain a housing for containing a character wheel therein, a first shift device for shifting the character wheel in the containing housing to a printing position, a printing hammer for impacting the characters of the character wheel in the printing position, and a second shift device for shifting an ink ribbon to a first position for printing and a second position for standby by the same motor that drives the first shaft device.

Single motor moving ribbon and exchanging character holding member, all

An electronic apparatus for drawing up documents. The apparatus includes an indicator for indicating registration of information, a keyboard for entering indicia and print pitch information, a memory including a first area for storing keyboard information, a second area for storing entered print pitch information, and a third area for storing registration information according to an indication by the indicator. The apparatus further includes a controller for, in response to the registration indication, storing the indicia information stored in the first area and the pitch information stored in the second area in the third area.

Serial printing apparatus with controllable pitch

There is disclosed an output apparatus which prints and outputs onto an ink ribbon in an electronic typewriter or the like. One motor is commonly used for print paper feed, ribbon feed, and ribbon lift up/down operations. The ribbon feed mechanism is controlled by the heteromorphic or noncircular rotary cam having grooves of different kinds of radii. The ink ribbon feed operation and the correction ribbon feed and lift up/down operations are also performed by the rotary cam. With this apparatus, the ink and correction ribbons can be efficiently used and the operation timing of the carriage can be accurately controlled.

Electronic typewriter having improved paper and ink feed mechanisms

There is described a printing apparatus in which line feed is achieved by rotating a platen with a paper advancing motor and the printing is conducted while the platen is stopped by the paper advancing motor. The printer is further provided with a detent mechanism for stopping the platen at the interval of a determined angle, and a solenoid for deactivating the function of the detent mechanism.

Printing apparatus having a rotatable member rotatable in incremental

An improved ink ribbon cassette for a serial printing apparatus comprises a body, first and second substantially coextensive spaced ink ribbon guide arms projecting from the body, each having a free end, and an ink ribbon mounted in the body for advancement during printing and having a portion extending between the free ends of the guide arms so as to be available for printing. One of the guide arms has a window therein through which the ribbon is visible. A first optically detectable indicator is carried on the ribbon at a position to be visible through the window when the ribbon is substantially exhausted. A second optically detectable structure is mounted on the guide arm adjacent the window and laterally spaced therefrom in the direction of movement of the ribbon. This second optically detectable structure indicates the type of ribbon in the cassette.

Ink ribbon cassette including means for identifying the type of ink

Disclosed is a printing mechanism having a printing head mounted on a carriage frame so as to linearly move the printing head toward a platen.

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