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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:
Mar. 20, 2007
Filed:
Dec. 15, 2003
Applicant:
Craig Hopper, Boise, ID (US);
Inventor:
Craig Hopper, Boise, ID (US);
Assignee:
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65H 29/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
This invention relates to a duplexer, comprising; a media input nip, an auxiliary roller nip located downstream of the media input nip such that the auxiliary roller nip comprises an auxiliary drive roller that exhibits slippage so that the auxiliary roller nip maintains constant contact with a sheet of media to be duplexed, a backstop located downstream from the auxiliary roller nip, and a media output nip located adjacent to the auxiliary roller nip.