Hewlett-packard Company

Supracut Systems International, Inc.

Supracut System International, Inc.

Steven Ray Card

Marcus L Scholz

Leonard Fraitag

Barrie Alan Mann

Kevin Gerald Szakacs

Daniel Steven Kline

Andrew J Zoolakis

Joseph S Wong

Lowell J Stewart

Irene H Williams

Shane J O'Neill

Karen M Mc Ardle

Edward D Davis

Karen McArdle

Curt Behrend

An automated food processing machine receives a whole fruit or vegetable and presses it through a blade set to form slices or wedges. The machine includes a controller coupled to various components including linear motion actuators, a user interface, and sensors. One motion actuator coupled to a slitting blade. Another motion actuator is coupled to a ram. In response to an input the controller activates the motion actuators in a sequence including (1) linear motion of the slitting blade to form a slit in the whole fruit or vegetable and (2) linear motion of the ram to press the whole fruit or vegetable through a blade set to form the slices or wedges.

Automated machine for slitting and wedge cutting whole fruits and vegetables

A narrow-width modular printing mechanism for a printer includes an integrated platen/service station assembly positioned within the printer. The integrated platen/service station assembly includes a platen member and a service station mechanically coupled together. The service station includes a bottom portion, at least one cap, at least one wiper and a mechanism for displacing the caps and the wipers relative to the bottom portion. The platen member is formed with apertures which are positioned and sized to facilitate displacement of the caps and the wipers through the platen member. In a preferred embodiment, the integrated platen/service station assembly is configured to accommodate a front-in, front-out paper path of the printer. In a preferred embodiment, the platen/service station assembly includes an actuator fork assembly. In a preferred embodiment, the platen/service station assembly includes a self-aligning cap sled.

Narrow-width modular printing mechanism

An ink-jet printer includes an ink-jet cartridge having a flexible circuit connecting to a carriage in a relatively movable but movably constrained relationship. The carriage and the flexible circuit cooperatively define an instant center so that an array of electrical contact pads of the flexible circuit is reliably and repeatably positioned relative to the carriage, while manufacturing variabilities and thermal differential expansions between the carriage and flexible circuit, for example, are accommodated without loss of relative positional control of the array of contact pads and the carriage.

Ink-jet printer having carriage and flexible circuit movably connected, method and apparatus

Apparatus for aligning a flexible circuit on an ink jet printer carriage includes three members located on a wall of the print carriage. The members are positioned to receive a flexible circuit having a circular hole and two elongate slots therein. Each slot has a major axis that intersects the center of the circular hole. The members permit the flexible circuit to flatten out during assembly of the carriage and to remove any unevenness in its surface.

Apparatus for aligning a flexible circuit on a ink jet printer carriage

Image transfer device

A process for start up of a thermal ink-jet printhead cartridge that includes a sequence of nozzle clearing procedures of increasing severity which are performed in sequence so long as some of the nozzles of the printhead fail to fire ink drops pursuant to ink firing pulses provided to the printhead or until all of the procedures have been performed.

Pen start up algorithm for black and color thermal ink-jet pens

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Steven Ray Card