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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
May. 07, 1985

Filed:

Mar. 18, 1983
Applicant:
Inventor:

Hidemasa Todoh, Hongo Ebina, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41S / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
346 / ; 358298 ;
Abstract

A thermal printer performs halftone reproduction of image by applying energy of an electrical signal which varies in response to the data representing tone graduation grade of the image into resistor heating element of the printer. The electrical signal to be applied to the heating element is not directly obtained from the above data but it is formed based on the conversion data stored in advance in a memory in which the characteristics of image receiving paper or inking material is taken into consideration.


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Todoh, Hidemasa. (1985). Thermal printer capable of reproducing halftone image (U.S. Patent No. 4516135). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/4516135

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