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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 13, 1985
Filed:
Jan. 10, 1985
Applicant:
Inventor:
Robert A Meloni, Baltimore, MD (US);
Assignee:
General Instrument Corp., Clifton, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
101 9305 ; 400124 ; 400320 ;
Abstract
Hammer actuators are mounted on a support. Instead of moving the entire massive support to traverse the paper for each line, only a low inertia member, which positions the impact ends of the print wires, is moved. The internal structure of the member facilitates minor curvature of the print wires as the member moves. The member is rapidly reciprocated relative to the support, but 'dwells' for a short time at each extreme to permit indexing of the paper. Ehnanced graphic capability is possible because each print wire can print a plurality of dots for each line.