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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:
Oct. 07, 2003
Filed:
Apr. 10, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 1/144 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 1/144 ;
Abstract
A printer including a cover state detector and a paper detector. The cover state detector detects whether a cover is opened with respect to a casing of a printer, whereas the paper detector detects whether paper is present within the casing. When the cover is opened, a detection result of the cover state detector is transmitted to a print controller prior to the time when a detection result of the paper detector is transmitted to the print controller.