Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Minoru Yokoyama

Akihiro Tomoda

Yasushi Ishida

Takashi Awai

Takehiro Yoshida

Makoto Kobayashi

Masakatsu Yamada

Takeshi Ono

Satoshi Wada

Tomoyuki Takeda

Hisao Terajima

Masaya Kondo

Hideyuki Terashima

Takahiro Kato

Yuji Nakano

Yosuke Ezumi

Toshio Kenmochi

Naohiro Iwata

Hisashi Toyoda

Shunji Kawashima

Mamoru Osada

Takeshi Kohno

Yukio Nohata

Keizo Sasai

Hirohisa Sawada

Takeshi Tsukamoto

Fumihiko Nakamura

Masao Kiguchi

Masakatsu Iwata

Takashi Fuse

Tomoyki Takeda

A program for externally controlling a communicating apparatus is provided. The program controls the communication apparatus externally by conducting mutual communication between the communication apparatus and an apparatus in which the program is executed, by means of a command and a response in reply to the command.

Program for externally controlling a communication apparatus

There is disclosed a recording apparatus for recording an image by transferring the ink contained in an ink sheet onto a recording medium, wherein the apparatus comprises ink sheet driving unit for driving said ink sheet, recording medium conveying unit for conveying said recording medium, recording head for recording onto said recording medium by acting on said ink sheet, slackness removing device for removing the slackness of said ink sheet, and control unit for controlling said slackness removing device so as not to remove the slackness of said ink sheet, when it is impossible to record with said recording head.

Thermal transfer recording apparatus with ink sheet slackness removal

An image processor includes a first image information processing unit which processes image information with respect to a sheet medium. A first sheet medium feeding path guides the sheet medium to the first image information processing unit, and exhausts the sheet medium from the first image information processing unit. A second image information processing unit processes image information with respect to a sheet medium while allowing a head for processing image information to travel serially. The second information processing unit is arranged on a side lower than the first image information processing unit. A second sheet medium feeding path guides the sheet medium to the second image information processing unit, and exhausts the sheet medium from the second image information processing unit. An electric circuit board is arranged below the feeding path of the first sheet medium, and above the feeding path of the second sheet medium. The electric circuit board is arrange on the reverse side of the head for processing image information. In this way, the number of boards and harnesses are reduced, thus reducing cost, and enhancing assembling capability and reliability.

Apparatus for processing image information

A printer that performs high-precision residual-ink detection regardless of various movements accompanying print operation and facsimile apparatus using the printer. When an ink cartridge reciprocates along a main-scanning direction, ink surface of ink 91 varies depending on a moving direction and moving condition (stationary state, uniform motion, accelerated motion and decelerated motion) of the ink cartridge. Accordingly, the residual-ink detection is controlled such that a residual-ink amount can be detected by using photosensor 11 and reflection board 93, at the same detection timing (e.g., always at timing of uniform motion).

Ink detection for printers and scanners

A thermal transfer recording apparatus for performing recording of data on a recording medium by transferring ink of an ink sheet on said recording medium comprises conveying means for conveying said ink sheet and recording medium, recording means for effecting said ink sheet to record image data on said recording medium, and control means for counting time after image recording by said recording means and driving said recording means when the next image recording is not performed in a predetermined time period.

Thermal Transfer recording apparatus and method to reduce ink sheet

A printing apparatus which can detect remaining ink with high precision regardless of trembles of ink surface in an ink tank caused by various factors such as scanning speed of a carriage, scanning width, impact of the carriage at the time of reversing the carriage scanning direction and the like, and can perform printing by efficiently utilizing the remaining ink, and a facsimile apparatus using the above printing apparatus. According to the apparatus, when a CPU controls print operation, the CPU dynamically changes the threshold value as a determination reference, utilized to detect remaining ink on the basis of an output current of a reflection type photosensor, in accordance with the scanning speed of carriage movement, the scanning width, and the stop period for reversing the scanning direction.

Inkjet printing apparatus which determines residual ink amount, and

A communication apparatus includes contacts for exchanging various data between a FAX terminal and a radio terminal having a display function to connect the FAX terminal and the radio terminal to cause the FAX terminal and the radio terminal to exchange necessary data therebetween, wherein display data is transferred from the FAX terminal to the radio terminal having the display function and is displayed on the radio terminal.

Communication apparatus having inter-communicating device for exchanging

An ink sheet reel capable,of being loaded into a recording apparatus has an ink sheet winding portion on which an ink sheet can be wound, and power transmission means provided so as to create an axial thrust in the ink sheet winding portion.

Ink sheet reel on which an ink sheet can be wound, ink sheet cartridge

A sheet feeding apparatus includes a guiding path for guiding a sheet, a detector for detecting the presence/absence of the sheet in the guiding path, a power-supply switch for turning on and off a power supply, and a determination device for determination whether the sheet comprises a rolled sheet or a cut sheet according to whether the detector detects or does not detect the sheet, respectively, when the power-supply switch has been turned on. A rolled sheet holder for holding the rolled sheet and covering an insertion port for leading the cut sheet or the rolled sheet to a feeding device.

Sheet feeding apparatus having means for determining the leading edge of

A sheet conveying apparatus and an original reading apparatus according to the present invention can reduce a load of a drive system for rotating a convey rotary member and can be made compact. The apparatus includes an original convey roller rotatably supported by a frame, and a contact sensor holder rockably held by a contact sensor rotation shaft regulated in a thickness-wise direction of an original by a contact sensor holder rotation shaft holding portion of the frame and adapted to hold a second contact sensor in a confronting relation to the original convey roller. The second contact sensor is urged against the original convey roller by an urging spring.

Sheet conveying apparatus with a reduced load driving system

An image communication apparatus includes a reader for reading an original image, a communication unit including an NCU for transmitting and receiving image data through a subscriber line, a recorder for recording the image read by the reader and the image data received by the communication unit on recording paper, a CPU for controlling an overall operation of the image communication apparatus, and contacts for connecting a detachable auxiliary or external device so that the CPU has an auxiliary function of the image communication apparatus.

Image communication apparatus

Thermal transfer recording apparatus for recording image on the recording medium by transferring ink of the ink sheet on the recording medium characterized by being provided with the ink sheet conveying means, the recording medium conveying means, recording means to record the image on the recording medium by being driven in accordance with the image data and working on the ink sheet and control means to drive the recording means with the energy smaller than that used at the time of ordinary recording utilizing the inverted data of the image data used in the preceding recording, the apparatus providing such advantage as the improvement of image quality, saving of consumption of ink sheet and saving of running cost, etc.

Recording method and apparatus with preheating using inverted image data

In a thermal transfer recording apparatus, an image is recorded on a recording medium by transferring ink from an ink sheet. The apparatus includes a holder for the ink sheet, conveyors for the ink sheet and recording medium, and an ink sheet detector. When the detector determines that the ink sheet is loaded into the holder, the ink sheet is conveyed so as to take up the slack in the ink sheet until the ink sheet reaches a predetermined speed.

Recording apparatus which controls ink sheet slack and method for the

The present invention provides a sheet conveying apparatus comprising a first rotary member for conveying a sheet, and a second rotary member disposed at a downstream side of the first rotary member in a sheet conveying direction and adapted to convey the sheet. It further comprises a first mode in which the first rotary member is rotated and the second rotary member is stopped, and a second mode in which the first and second rotary members are rotated. In a condition that the first rotary member is continuously rotated in one direction, the first mode is changed to the second mode.

Sheet conveying apparatus

A recording apparatus for recording onto a recording medium comprises a loading section for loading rockably an ink sheet cartridge having an ink sheet containing ink, a first winding member for winding said ink sheet, a second winding member for winding said ink sheet, and a frame body for holding the first winding member and the second winding member rockably, with the loading section loading the ink sheet cartridge detachably, a positioning device for positioning the first winding member and the second winding member, and a recording head for recording onto the recording medium by acting on the ink sheet.

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Yokohama, Japan

Minoru Yokoyama