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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. 04, 1990
Filed:
Mar. 21, 1988
Applicant:
Inventor:
Takahiro Tsukamoto, Mitaka, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
400320 ; 400 76 ; 400279 ;
Abstract
A print apparatus is provided to perform in a Character-By-Character mode, a print operation or a function processing operation depending upon whether or not the pressed key is a character key. On the other hand, in a Line-By-Line mode, when the pressed key is not a carriage shift key, a character storing operation or a function processing operation including a print operation is performed depending upon whether or not the pressed key is a character key. In the Line-By-Line mode, when no character is keyed in, a carriage shift operation is performed, thereby allowing the positions of tabs/margins and the position at which print starts to be changed.