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US 4,353,079 AGranted
Electronic device having a variable density thermal ink jet recorder
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorTsuyoshi Kawanabe
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Abstract
An electronic device provided with recording unit in which thermal energy is made to act on a fine solution compartment, the liquid in orifice section is pushed out by the air bubbles generated, keyboard, arithmetic and logical unit, memory unit, control unit, and power supply, in which arithmetic operation or control is made based on the command from the keyboard to record numerics, characters, symbols, etc. on recording paper, and based on the command from said keyboard, said control circuit selects the number of times of liquid discharge.
Claims4
An electronic device having a thermal ink jet printer comprising:
- a character generator for generating character information to be recorded on a recording medium;
- an AND gate, one input terminal of which receives the output of said character generator;
- heater means for receiving the output of said AND gate and for causing an ink jet nozzle to eject droplets of a recording fluid in response to said AND gate's output;
- a keyboard provided with an instruction key for instructing the number of outputs of said AND gate;
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- a control section connected to another input terminal of said AND gate for controlling the number of outputs from said AND gate in accordance with the operation of said instruction key.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.