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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:
Apr. 21, 1987
Filed:
Mar. 10, 1986
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Konishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01D / ; H05B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
3461 / ; 346 75 ; 219497 ; 219501 ;
Abstract
A heater power controller for an ink jet printer wherein the output of a comparator making a comparison between a detection signal of the temperature of an ink in a print head of the ink jet printer and a reference signal is chopped by a clock having a predetermined period so as to be converted into a chopper signal, by which the supply of the power to a heating means provided in the head is controlled. A regulating device for regulating the duty ratio of the chopper signal is provided. Each of pulses constituting the chopper signal is made out of phase with a pulse supplied to other pulse-driven load.