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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:
Aug. 24, 2004
Filed:
Mar. 18, 2002
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 2/145 ; B41J 2/15 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 2/145 ; B41J 2/15 ;
Abstract
Ink-jet heads having respective sets of ink ejection nozzles arranged longitudinally at a predetermined pitch are arranged in the moving direction of a sheet of art paper with a predetermined distance separating them from each other. The pitch Q separating the ink ejection nozzle of one of the ink-jet heads located at an end thereof from the corresponding ink ejection nozzle of the other ink-jet head located at the proximal end of the former ink ejection nozzle is made smaller the predetermined pitch P of arrangement of the ink ejection heads of the ink-jet heads.