B41J 2/355
Control circuits for heating-element selection
B41J2/355 (Control circuits for heating-element selection) appears on 1,179 US grants and 696 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B41J- Granted patents
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- Published applications
- 696
- Assignees
- 253
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- Latest grant
- 22 Sep 2026
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| 2026 | 6 | 21 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
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By later US patents
- Recording apparatus, recording head and substrate therefor158US 6,290,334 B1Canon Kabushiki Kaisha · 2001
- Method and system to calculate line feed error in labels on a printer154US 9,701,140 B1Datamax-O'Neil Corporation · 2017
- Thermal head drive device138US 4,567,488 AFuji Xerox Co., Ltd. · 1986
- Handy printer system122US 5,927,872 AHewlett-Packard Company · 1999
- Thermal line printer with staggered head segments and overlap compensation110US 5,450,099 AEastman Kodak Company · 1995