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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. 06, 2000
Filed:
Nov. 14, 1996
Applicant:
Inventor:
Naohisa Kinoshita, Nagoya, JP;
Assignee:
Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Nagoya, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J / ; B41J / ; B41J / ; B41J / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
347 40 ; 347 14 ; 347 19 ;
Abstract
A portable dot printing device including an encoder for detecting movement amount of the portable dot printing device across the recording medium and for producing a pulse signal based on a minimum movement amount detectable by the encoder; and a print head formed with at least a first element row and a second element row each having elements for printing dots on the recording medium, the first element row and the second element row being separated by a predetermined pitch equal to a multiple of the minimum movement amount, the print head being controlled to print images using the elements based on the pulse signal from the encoder.