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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:
Nov. 17, 1987
Filed:
Sep. 17, 1986
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
400121 ; 340731 ; 101 9304 ; 400 76 ;
Abstract
The line size of character lines constituting a page of print paper is compared with the limited line size. If a line has its line size larger than the limited line size, it is divided into several lines having a smaller line size. An edit control circuit appends a divisional character code to each divided portion of a character which is divided into several lines. An expansion control circuit receives a divisional character code, extracts the divided portion of the character from the patterns of available characters and writes it into a line buffer memory. Patterns in the line buffer memory are written sequentially into a page memory which stores patterns of characters printed in a page of print paper.