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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:
Dec. 01, 1987
Filed:
Jul. 24, 1986
Applicant:
Inventors:
Holden Caine, Rochester, NY (US);
Scott A Brownstein, Rochester, NY (US);
Assignee:
Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01D / ; H04N / ; B41J / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
346 / ; 358298 ; 400120 ;
Abstract
A continuous tone temperature compensated thermal printing apparatus is described which uses a thermistor that produces a signal representative of the average temperature of a print head. This signal is used to control the pulse width of constant current pulses which are used to energize heating elements of a print head in printing an image pixel.