| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 7362971 |
Camera unit incorporating a lidded printhead unit |
April 22, 2008 |
| A camera unit includes a chassis. An image sensor is mounted to the chassis and is configured to sense an image. A display is mounted to the chassis and is configured to display the sensed image. A printhead unit is mounted to the chassis and is configured to print the sensed image u |
| 7362463 |
System for delivery of a brochure containing coded data |
April 22, 2008 |
| A system for delivering a brochure, including a computer system with a server adapted to provide and format visible information of a brochure and substantially invisible information including coded data indicative of an identity of the brochure and of at least one interactive element; a |
| 7362314 |
Interactive surface for enabling user interaction with software |
April 22, 2008 |
| An interactive surface for enabling user interaction with software in a computer system via a sensing device, the interactive surface comprising: visual information relating to a drawing field and the computer software; and, coded data indicative of an identity of the interface and |
| 7360880 |
Ink cartridge having porous insert for use in a mobile device |
April 22, 2008 |
| An ink cartridge for use in a mobile device, the ink cartridge including: at least one ink reservoir for holding ink; at least one baffle dividing the at least one ink reservoir into a plurality of sections, each of the sections in each ink reservoir being in fluid communication with eac |
| 7360872 |
Inkjet printhead chip with nozzle assemblies incorporating fluidic seals |
April 22, 2008 |
| An inkjet printhead chip includes a wafer substrate that defines a plurality of ink inlet channels. A drive circuitry layer is positioned on the wafer substrate. A plurality of nozzle assemblies is positioned on the wafer substrate. Each nozzle assembly includes a nozzle chamber stru |
| 7360871 |
Inkjet chamber with ejection actuator between inlet and nozzle |
April 22, 2008 |
| An inkjet drop ejection apparatus formed on a substrate by lithographic etching and deposition techniques. The ink inlet, the actuator and the nozzle being formed in three separate planes respectively, each plane being parallel to the plane of the substrate, such that, the actuator is |
| 7360868 |
Inkjet printer cartridge with infrared ink delivery capabilities |
April 22, 2008 |
| A printer cartridge for an inkjet printer including one or more inks for printing; and a printhead in fluid communication with the one or more inks, wherein at least one of the one or more inks is an infra-red ink. |
| 7360865 |
Inkjet printhead with short nozzle |
April 22, 2008 |
| An inkjet drop ejection apparatus with a very short nozzle, providing reduced viscous drag. Various structures are shown where the nozzle length is around two microns. |
| 7360861 |
Pagewidth printhead cartridge having an integral capper unit associated therewith |
April 22, 2008 |
| A cartridge unit for an inkjet printer comprising: a body portion having one or more ink storage compartments; a pagewidth printhead assembly mountable to said body portion and configured to receive ink from the one or more compartments for printing; and a capper unit mountable to said |
| 7360860 |
System for mounting a capper assembly to a pagewidth printhead |
April 22, 2008 |
| A capping assembly for capping a pagewidth printhead of an inkjet printer. The capping assembly has a body configured to extend the length of the printhead and a capping element housed within said body and movable with respect to the body to cap at least a portion of the printhead. Th |
| 7360850 |
Postcard printing camera printing postage paid tokens |
April 22, 2008 |
| A recyclable, one-time use, print on demand, digital camera is provided which has an image sensor device for sensing an image. A processor processes the sensed image. A pagewidth printhead prints the sensed image. An ink supply arrangement supplies ink to the print head and the image |
| 7360131 |
Printer controller having tamper resistant shadow memory |
April 15, 2008 |
| A printer controller is provided having an integrated circuit incorporating a processor and memory. The memory stores a set of data representing program code and/or an operating value for printer control. Each bit of the data is stored as a bit/inverse-bit pair in corresponding pairs |
| 7360089 |
Registration network for optical sensing device including printer as base station |
April 15, 2008 |
| A network including an optical sensing device, and a registration server, wherein a secret key and a unique public identifier are installed in the optical sensing device and in a database of the registration server; wherein the optical sensing device is adapted to communicate with the |
| 7359551 |
Method and apparatus for decoding handwritten characters |
April 15, 2008 |
| Disclosed is a method of performing written character recognition, including sequentially comparing a given input character with one of a series of stored character models. The step of comparing further includes the steps of: decomposing the given input character into one or more seg |
| 7358697 |
Robot for marking an encoded surface |
April 15, 2008 |
| A robot for marking an encoded surface is provided. The encoded surface has coded data identifying a plurality of locations thereon. The robot has an image sensor for sensing the coded data, and a processor for generating indicating data using the coded data sensed by the image senso |
| 7357583 |
Print engine assembly with overlapping ink printing IC's |
April 15, 2008 |
| A print engine assembly includes an elongate chassis. A pair of bearing moldings is operatively mounted to either end of the chassis. A printhead assembly is mounted within the chassis. The printhead assembly includes an elongate printhead having a plurality of ink printing integrated |
| 7357497 |
Print roll core with internal ink storage |
April 15, 2008 |
| A print roll unit includes an elongate core defining a plurality of elongate ink chambers for each storing a respective type of ink. A roll of print media includes a tubular former in which the core can be received and a length of print media which is wound upon the former. A housing |
| 7357496 |
Inkjet printhead assembly with resilient ink connectors |
April 15, 2008 |
| A pagewidth printhead assembly for an inkjet printer, the printhead assembly comprising: a pagewidth printhead structure having an array of nozzles and a plurality of ink ports in fluid communication with corresponding nozzles in the array; an ink cartridge docking frame for receivin |
| 7357493 |
Ink refill unit with sequential valve actuators |
April 15, 2008 |
| A refill unit for refilling an ink storage compartment is provided. The ink storage compartment has an interface for releasably engaging with the refill unit. The interface has valves for controlling ink flows into, and out of, the storage compartment. The refill unit has a body containi |
| 7357492 |
Ink cartridge with variable ink storage volume |
April 15, 2008 |
| An ink cartridge for an inkjet printer is provided. The cartridge has an ink storage compartment having opposed wall sections connected by a flexible wall arrangement to define a variable ink storage volume, and an ink feed system for supplying ink to a printhead with an array of noz |
| 7357489 |
Thermal ink jet printhead with heaters formed from low atomic number elements |
April 15, 2008 |
| There is disclosed an ink jet printhead which comprises a plurality of nozzles (3) and one or more heater elements (10) corresponding to each nozzle. Each heater element is configured to heat a bubble forming liquid in the printhead to a temperature above its boiling point to form a gas |
| 7357488 |
Nozzle assembly incorporating a shuttered actuation mechanism |
April 15, 2008 |
| A nozzle assembly is provided for an inkjet printer. The assembly includes a wafer arrangement defining an ink supply channel. A border is constructed on the wafer arrangement and bounds the ink supply channel. A cover layer is constructed on the border to define a nozzle chamber. The |
| 7357485 |
Inkjet printhead having row of nozzle actuators interleaved with nozzles of adjacent row |
April 15, 2008 |
| A printhead for a drop on demand inkjet printer that has an array of nozzle assemblies 10 formed on a substrate 16 in a series of adjacent rows. Each nozzle has a nozzle opening 24 in communication with a nozzle chamber 34. The nozzle 22 is displaceable toward the substrate 16 for ef |
| 7357484 |
Inkjet printhead having removable printhead carriers |
April 15, 2008 |
| An inkjet printhead assembly is provided comprising an elongate support structure having a base and sidewalls extending from the base, ink supply channels defined between the base and sidewalls, and carrier units removably mounted to the elongate support structure. The base and sidew |
| 7357477 |
Inkjet printer with laterally displaceable capping mechanism |
April 15, 2008 |
| A printer is provided which has a pagewidth printhead assembly and a capping mechanism. The printhead assembly has a pagewidth printhead and a plurality of nozzles located along the printhead for delivering ink onto print media as it is transported past the printhead. The capping mec |
| 7357476 |
Capping/purging system for inkjet printhead assembly |
April 15, 2008 |
| A capping/purging mechanism is disclosed for a pagewidth printhead assembly having a pagewidth printhead and a plurality of nozzles located along the printhead for delivering ink onto print media which is transported past the printhead. The capping/purging mechanism comprises-i) a ca |
| 7357475 |
Filtered air supply for nozzle guard |
April 15, 2008 |
| A printhead for an inkjet printer, with an array of nozzles for selectively ejecting drops of ink towards a print medium, and a protective structure between said nozzles and said print medium. The structure is configured so as not to obstruct ink drops ejected from the nozzles. The p |
| 7357323 |
Obtaining product item assistance |
April 15, 2008 |
| A method of requesting assistance relating to a product item is provided. The product item includes an associated interface surface. The interface surface has disposed thereon coded data indicative of an identity of the product item. The method comprises the steps of, in a sensing device |
| 7357311 |
Printing educational material using a mobile device |
April 15, 2008 |
| A system for printing educational material on a print medium. The system comprises a mobile telecommunications device which includes a printer module to print the educational material on the print medium and a sensor module to sense a print media identifier of the print medium. Informati |
| 7354208 |
Paper thickness compensation in a printer |
April 8, 2008 |
| In a printer, page thickness is compensated for by measuring a displacement between a printhead and a print media support surface. A sensor flag engages a surface of said print media and provides an indication to an optical sensor of the displacement. The print media support surface |
| 7354122 |
Printing of redundantly encoded distributed data |
April 8, 2008 |
| A method of printing digital data on a photograph includes loading an image processing program, transforming image data with the image processing program to produce transformed image data; redundantly encoding the transformed image data and the image processing program into a distrib |
| 7354121 |
Printer for a conveyance |
April 8, 2008 |
| A conveyance (132) includes a zone for receiving goods and/or persons. At least one printer (10) is incorporated into a fitting in the zone. |
| 7350913 |
Inkjet printer with cradle for unobstructed access to cartridge |
April 1, 2008 |
| An inkjet printer comprising an outer casing with a hingedly mounted panel for access its interior; a cradle housed within the outer casing for supporting an ink cartridge, the cradle having a hingedly mounted lid that opens to allow the ink cartridge to be inserted and removed; wher |
| 7350906 |
Ink supply arrangement incorporating sets of passages for carrying respective types of ink |
April 1, 2008 |
| An ink supply arrangement is provided for supplying ink to an inkjet printhead. The ink supply arrangement includes an elongate ink distribution molding, in turn, defining a printhead channel in which the printhead can be received. The ink distribution molding further defines sets of |
| 7350903 |
Inkjet printhead with common chamber and actuator material |
April 1, 2008 |
| An inkjet printhead with an array of drop ejectors, each having a chamber for holding ink, an actuator and a nozzle. The actuation of the actuator ejects ink through the nozzle, and at least one internal surface of the chamber and an ink engaging face of the actuator are formed from the |
| 7350901 |
Ink supply unit for an ink jet printer |
April 1, 2008 |
| An ink supply unit is provided for supplying ink to a printhead in a printer. The supply unit includes an elongate housing defining a longitudinally extending channel. A baffle member is configured to be received in the channel to define ink chambers which can each contain a respecti |
| 7350896 |
Electromagnetically controlled capper assembly for capping a pagewidth printhead cartridge |
April 1, 2008 |
| A capping assembly for capping a pagewidth printhead of an inkjet printer comprising: a body configured to extend the length of the printhead; a capping element housed within the body and having a rim portion adapted to cap at least a portion of the printhead; a displacement assembly |
| 7350889 |
Printer with loudspeaker interface |
April 1, 2008 |
| A printer includes a loudspeaker that announces error messages and the like. The error messages are stored as sound files in an onboard memory device. A central processor communicates with a speaker interface circuit by means of a data bus. A DMA controller is provided that mediates the |
| 7350887 |
Postcard printing camera |
April 1, 2008 |
| A recyclable, one-time use, print on demand, digital camera includes an image sensor device for sensing an image. A processor processes the sensed image. A pagewidth printhead prints the sensed image. An ink supply arrangement supplies ink to the print-head and the image is printed o |
| 7350417 |
Pressure sensor with conductive laminate membrane |
April 1, 2008 |
| A pressure sensor (30) for sensing a fluid pressure in harsh environments such as the air pressure in a tire, by using a chamber (58) partially defined by a flexible membrane (50), the flexible membrane (50) is a laminate having at least two layers wherein at least one of the layers is |
| 7350236 |
Method and system for creation and use of a photo album |
March 25, 2008 |
| A method including providing a user with a photo album form printed on a surface, the photo album form containing information relating to a photo album activity and including coded data indicative of an identity of the photo album form and of a plurality of points on the form; receiving, |
| 7349777 |
Car display capture apparatus |
March 25, 2008 |
| An in-vehicle information retrieval system includes a data generating module for generating data within the vehicle. A data capture module is in communication with the data generating module for capturing data from the data generating module. A printing unit is mounted in the vehicle and |
| 7349572 |
Method of pre-processing an image to be printed in a hand-held camera |
March 25, 2008 |
| A method is provided for pre-processing an image to be printed. The pre-processing is performed with a processor of a hand-held camera. The method involves the step of capturing an image with an image sensor of the camera including a Bayer color filter array (CFA). The captured image |
| 7349216 |
Modular electronic device |
March 25, 2008 |
| A modular electronic device is provided in a tubular form having a male bayonet connector at one end and a female bayonet connector at the other. A power and communications bus interconnects the connectors. An electronic circuit is located within the device in communication with the |
| 7349125 |
Application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) in the form of a printer processor |
March 25, 2008 |
| A processor is provided for a printer. The processor includes an address, data and control bus. An expander unit is coupled to the bus and is configured to decompress a bi-level black layer of a page to be printed. A decoder unit is coupled to the bus and is configured to decompress a |
| 7347537 |
High efficiency thermal ink jet printhead |
March 25, 2008 |
| There is disclosed an inkjet printhead which comprises a plurality of nozzles (3) and one or more heater elements (10) corresponding to each nozzle (3). Each heater element is configured to heat a bubble forming liquid in the printhead to a temperature above its boiling point to form |
| 7347536 |
Ink printhead nozzle arrangement with volumetric reduction actuators |
March 25, 2008 |
| An ink jet printhead nozzle arrangement includes a wafer substrate that defines side walls and an inlet opening of an ink chamber. Drive circuitry is arranged on the wafer substrate A. roof wall assembly defines a roof of the ink chamber and an ink ejection port in fluid communicatio |
| 7347535 |
Liquid ejection device with a commonly composed actuator and liquid ejector |
March 25, 2008 |
| A liquid-ejection integrated circuit device includes a substrate that defines a plurality of ink inlet channels. Integrated circuitry is positioned on the substrate. A plurality of nozzle chamber structures is positioned on the substrate. Each nozzle chamber structure defines a nozzl |
| 7347534 |
Inkjet printhead with apertured sealing film |
March 25, 2008 |
| A printhead for an inkjet printer, the printhead comprising: a printhead integrated circuit having an array of ink ejection nozzles formed on a substrate; a plurality of ink feed conduits for establishing fluid communication with at least one ink storage compartment; and, a polymer |
| 7347526 |
Capping member for inkjet printer |
March 25, 2008 |
| A capping member for a pagewidth printhead assembly having-- (i) at least one pagewidth printhead; and (ii) a plurality of nozzles located along the at least one printhead, the capping member comprising: a) a lip portion that is formed integrally with a body portion; and b) a cavity |
