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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:
Sep. 14, 1993
Filed:
Aug. 26, 1991
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, Osaka, JP;
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J / ; G02F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
358296 ; 358302 ; 3461 / ; 346108 ; 359 45 ; 359 53 ;
Abstract
An image formation apparatus includes a writing device for selectively writing image data on a liquid crystal cell by beam light, a printer for printing out an image on a recording medium, an erasing device for erasing the image written on the liquid crystal cell by a beam of light from a specified region, and a controller for controlling the writing device for writing a novel image in the region from which the previously written image has been erased.