Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Nobuhiro Tamura

Masayuki Hachinoda

Matahira Kotani

Motohiko Hayashi

Hiroshi Morimoto

Sadaaki Shimonaga

When a number of exothermic elements arranged linearly are used for printing, driving data are inputted to the gate circuits of each exothermic element, and the gate circuits are controlled by the strobe signals in the conducting/nonconducting state. The circuit gates are divided into groups and the strobe signals different for each group are inputted in sequence. At printing, when there is the group having a relatively small number or no exothermic elements being heated and driven, and the strobe signal is given to each group successively for any groups, the necessary driving time may be wasted. The operating speed many be improved if a plurality of strobe signals are outputted in parallel when the number of exothermic elements being heated and driven is relatively small, and if the corresponding strobe signals are stopped when there is no exothermic element, and outputting the next strobe signals immediately in both cases.

High speed printer

A facsimile machine for reading image information to be transmitted and recording received image information, including a setting device for setting the facsimile machine to a continuous transmission mode for continuously transmitting a plurality of original documents, a storage for storing, in response to an input from the setting device, a state of the continuous transmission mode being set and a time counting device for counting, when the state is stored in the storage, a time period after transmission of an image of each of the original documents such that a facsimile circuit of the facsimile machine is kept closed until the time period counted by the time counting device reaches a predetermined value.

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Yamatokoriyama, Japan

Nobuhiro Tamura