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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. 19, 1986
Filed:
Jan. 10, 1984
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01D / ; H05B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
346 / ; 219216 ;
Abstract
A thermal head drive circuit for use with a thermal head comprising multiple heat generating elements for data recording comprising a heat accumulation calculating unit (36) for calculating the heat residual from prior recording steps and a pulse width calculating unit (38) for calculating the pulse widths of voltage to be applied to an element dependent on the calculated residual heat and the pulse width of the prior recording step.