# US 4,394,076 A · Indicia recording apparatus > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 4,394,076 A - Document ID: US4394076A - Status: Granted - Kind: A - Application number: 06/282,279 - Filed: 1981-07-10 - Granted: 1983-07-19 - Earliest claimed: 1980-07-31 - Assignees: Amtech Patent Licensing Corporation - Inventors: Solomon Manber; David Chiang; Mosi Chu - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US4394076A ## CPC - G06K 15/1295: {using a particular photoreceptive medium} - G06K 15/1204: {involving the fast moving of an optical beam in the main scanning direction (G06K15/1233 - G06K15/129 take precedence)} - G06K 15/1233: {using a cathode-ray tube or an optical-fibre tube} - G06K: GRAPHICAL DATA READING (image or video recognition or understanding G06V); PRESENTATION OF DATA; RECORD CARRIERS; HANDLING RECORD CARRIERS ## Abstract Apparatus for recording characters on a photographic record medium including spaced feed and takeup reels for carrying a roll of the medium. A support such as a cylinder is disposed between the reels supports the record medium. A carriage is controllably movable opposite the support and in a direction transverse to the direction of record medium movement. A recording head on the carriage has a radiation emitter device for emitting intensity modulated radiation toward the cylindrical support along a scan line which makes an angle with the direction of the transverse movement. ## Claims ### Claim 1 Indicia recording apparatus comprising: a supply reel for storing a roll of record medium; a takeup reel for accumulating record medium removed from said feed reel; a supporting means intermediate said supply and takeup reels, for supporting a portion of the record medium, a carriage means controllably and repeatedly movable opposite said supporting means and in a direction transverse to the travel of the record medium, and a recording head on said carriage means, said recording head comprising radiation emitting means for emitting intensity modulated radiation toward said supporting means along a plurality of equilength scan lines, each of said scan lines being in a different plane intersecting said supporting means whereby during a single traverse of said carriage means a transverse band of the record medium is scanned. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The indicia recording apparatus of claim 1 wherein said radiation emitting means is at least one linear array of light emitting devices. ### Claim 3 (depends on 2) The indicia recording apparatus of claim 2 further including means for focusing the light from said light emitting devices onto a surface which substantially conforms to a portion of the surface of said supporting means. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The indicia recording apparatus of claim 1 wherein said carriage means comprises drive support means, a lead screw means supported by said drive support means along an axis parallel to the axis of said supporting means and carrying said recording head, and motor means connected to said lead screw means whereby said recording head can be driven opposite the surface of the record medium. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The indicia recording apparatus of claim 1 further comprising a record medium, said record medium being a layer of xerographic material. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The indicia recording apparatus of claim 1 further comprising a record medium, said record medium being a photographic film. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) The indicia recording apparatus of claim 1 wherein said record medium is a roll of photographic film. ### Claim 8 (depends on 7) The indicia recording apparatus of claim 7 wherein each of said reels is in a cassette means. ### Claim 9 (depends on 1) The indicia recording apparatus of claim 1 wherein said radiation emitting means comprises a cathode-ray tube means. ### Claim 10 (depends on 9) The indicia recording apparatus of claim 9 wherein said cathode-ray tube means performs a repetitive single line scan. ### Claim 11 (depends on 1) The indicia recording apparatus of claim 1 wherein said radiation emitting means comprises laser means remote from said carriage means and deflecting means on said carriage means for deflecting the radiation from said laser means toward the surface of said supporting means. ### Claim 12 Indicia recording apparatus comprising: a source of a record medium; an accepting means for accepting record medium removed from said source; a supporting means intermediate said source and said accepting means, for supporting a portion of the record medium, a carriage means controllably and repeatedly movable opposite said supporting means and in a direction transverse to the travel of the record medium, and a recording head on said carriage means, said recording head comprising radiation emitting means for emitting intensity modulated radiation toward said supporting means along a plurality of equilength scan lines, each of said scan lines being in a different plane intersecting said supporting means whereby during a single traverse of said carriage means a transverse band of the record medium is scanned.