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  3. /B41 · Printing
  4. /B41J · Typewriters
  5. /B41J 33/00 · Apparatus or arrangements for feeding ink ribbons or like character-size impression-transfer material
  6. /B41J 33/14 · Ribbon-feed devices or mechanisms
  7. /B41J 33/16 · With drive applied to spool or spool spindle
  8. /B41J 33/20
B41J 33/20

By friction

Official title: by friction

B41J33/20 (By friction) appears on 12 US grants and 1 published applications in this corpus.

Search patents in B41J

Where it sits

  1. BPerforming operations
  2. B41Printing
  3. B41JTypewriters
  4. B41J 33/00Apparatus or arrangements for feeding ink ribbons or like character-size impression-transfer material
  5. B41J 33/14Ribbon-feed devices or mechanisms
  6. B41J 33/16With drive applied to spool or spool spindle
  7. B41J 33/20By friction
Granted patents
12
Published applications
1
Assignees
4
Inventors
16
Latest grant
21 Jan 2014

Filings by year

Granted patentsPublished applications
B41J 33/20: granted patents and published applications per publication year
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1989199920092014

By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001.

Recent patents

  • Carbon ribbon recovery device and a printer having the same21 Jan 2014US 8,632,267 B2Shandong New Beiyang Information Technology Co., Ltd.
  • Ribbon cassette with friction mechanism18 Sep 2001US 6,290,408 B1Alps Electric Co., Ltd.
  • Paper feed method and apparatus1 May 2001US 6,224,051 B1Pfu Limited
  • Paper feed method and apparatus for a printer18 Jul 2000US 6,089,564 APfu Limited
  • Paper feed method and apparatus for a printer8 Feb 2000US 6,022,015 APfu Limited
  • Carbon ribbon recovery device and a printer having the same3 Feb 2011US 2011/0026996 A1Shandong New Beiyang Information Technology Co., Ltd.

Most cited

By later US patents
  • Ribbon feed mechanism22US 4,797,690 AMatsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. · 1989
  • Paper feed method and apparatus for a printer12US 6,022,015 APfu Limited · 2000
  • Paper feed method and apparatus12US 6,224,051 B1Pfu Limited · 2001
  • Paper feed method and apparatus for a printer10US 5,846,007 APfu Limited · 1998
  • Paper feed method and apparatus for a printer9US 5,713,674 APfu Limited · 1998

Top assignees

Documents
  • PPfu Limited9
  • SNShandong New Beiyang Information Technology Co., Ltd.2
  • Alps Electric Co., Ltd.1
  • MEMatsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.1

Often classified with

  • Y10STechnical subjects covered by former uspc cross-reference art collections [xracs] and digests9
  • Y02PLow-carbon manufacturing2

Documents that also carry the other class.

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