B41J 19/14
Character- or line-spacing mechanisms: with means for effecting line or character spacing
Official title: with means for effecting line or character spacing in either direction
B41J19/14 (Character- or line-spacing mechanisms: with means for effecting line or character spacing) appears on 791 US grants and 646 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B41J- Granted patents
- 791
- Published applications
- 646
- Assignees
- 118
- Inventors
- 1,088
- Latest grant
- 9 Jun 2026
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| 2000 | 27 | 0 |
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| 2003 | 41 | 26 |
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| 2022 | 21 | 33 |
| 2023 | 30 | 25 |
| 2024 | 27 | 23 |
| 2025 | 18 | 11 |
| 2026 | 7 | 5 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Printing device and printing method9 Jun 2026US 12,649,327 B2Seiko Epson Corporation
- Liquid ejecting device14 Apr 2026US 12,600,137 B2Seiko Epson Corporation
- Liquid discharge apparatus, liquid discharge method, and storage medium7 Apr 2026US 12,594,568 B2Ricoh Company, Ltd.
- Printing device and printing method31 Mar 2026US 12,589,598 B2Seiko Epson Corporation
- Liquid discharge apparatus17 Feb 2026US 12,552,184 B2Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
- Liquid discharge head, liquid discharge unit, and liquid discharge apparatus20 Aug 2026US 2026/0241690 A1
- Liquid ejection apparatus and method of forming correction pattern9 Jul 2026US 2026/0192561 A1Seiko Epson Corporation
- Communication of digital representations to nozzle sets26 Mar 2026US 2026/0084434 A1Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L. P.
- Controller, controlling method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium therefor5 Mar 2026US 2026/0061743 A1
- Printing apparatus, control method, and storage medium15 Jan 2026US 2026/0014803 A1Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
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- Fault-tolerant dot-matrix printing111US 5,124,720 AHewlett-Packard Company · 1992