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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:
Jun. 23, 1987
Filed:
Feb. 07, 1985
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J / ; B41J / ; G01D / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
346-11 ; 101 9304 ; 346 / ; 400120 ; 400121 ; 400126 ;
Abstract
A printing head has two or more columns each consisting of a vertical array of dot printing elements. A pulse motor moves the printing head relative to paper, and another pulse motor line feeds the paper upon printing each line. The columns of the head print dots in a superposed manner at high speed under the control of a CPU including memories for storing 7-dot patterns and a control program, respectively.