Media handling in an ink-jet printer having guide ribs
What is claimed is: 1. A print medium support mechanism for supporting a sheetlike print medium in a printer's print zone, comprising: an upper print media guide; the upper print media guide having a ... Read More
Inventors: Patrick, Jeffrey G.; Jackson, Larry A.;, Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Company (Palo Alto, CA) |
Recording apparatus having urging member to prevent floating of recording sheet
An object of the present invention is to provide a recording apparatus which can eliminate the above-mentioned conventional drawbacks, to prevent the floating of a recording sheet without decreasing t... Read More
Inventors: Miyauchi, Yasuo; Tajika, Hiroshi; Uchida, Haruo;, Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Tokyo, JP) |
Platen-drive thermal dye printer with cone shaped scuff rollers transporting the receiver in reciprocating directions
The present invention as disclosed herein overcomes the problems set forth above. The invention uses at least one conical shaped scuff roller at one end of a platen roller to transport the precut dye ... Read More
Inventors: Wen, Xin; Delorme, John D.;, Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company (Rochester, NY) |
Method and apparatus for controlling data transfers between a bus and a memory device using a multi-chip memory controller
A method and apparatus for controlling data transfers between a bus and a memory device using a multi-chip memory controller is described herein. The memory controller includes a data controller unit ... Read More
Inventors: Pawlowski, Stephen S.; Stolt, Patrick F.;, Assignee: Intel Corporation (Santa Clara, CA) |
Mechanism for PCI I/O-initiated configuration cycles
OF THE EMBODIMENTS The PCI local bus was intended to allow downstream configuration register access, i.e., from host processor 30 and PCI controller 48 of FIG. 2. Upstream configuration register acce... Read More
Inventors: Creta, Kenneth C.; Moran, Doug; Shanmugasundaram, Vasudevan;, Assignee: Intel Corporation (Santa Clara, CA) |
Mechanism for arbitrating client access to a networked print server
In accordance with the present invention, the foregoing objectives are realized by providing a system using virtual circuits and "windows" for communication between client processes on a network and a... Read More
Inventors: Mogul, Jeffrey C.;, Assignee: Digital Equipment Corporation (Maynard, MA) |
Printer
OF THE INVENTION 2. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a printer and a control apparatus of a printer in which an emulation function is supported. 2. Prior Art Conventional print... Read More
Inventors: Ikenoue, Yoshikazu; Kamei, Nobuo; Kawamura, Motomi; Yoshida, Eiichi; Suzuki, Katsunori;, Assignee: Minolta Camera Kabushiki Kaisha (Osaka, JP) |
Ribbon reinking apparatus
A primary object of my invention is to provide a novel ribbon reinking apparatus that can reink many different size and shape ribbon cartridges and reel to reel type ribbons with minor adjustment to t... Read More
Inventors: Grubb, Roger E.;, Assignee: |
Control mechanism to disable driven ink metering elements in rotary printing machines
It is an object of the present invention to provide a mechanism permitting any ink metering element which is driven by an electric motor from a remote control station to be rendered inactive in a simp... Read More
Inventors: Bolza-Schunemann, Claus A.;, Assignee: Koenig & Bauer Aktiengesellschaft (Wurzburg, DE) |
Method and system for maintaining translation lookaside buffer coherency in a multiprocessor data processing system
It is therefore one object of the present invention to provide an improved multiprocessor data processing system. It is another object of the present invention to provide an improved method and system... Read More
Inventors: Moore, Charles R.; Muhich, John S.;, Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, NY) |
Data transaction typing for improved caching and prefetching characteristics
The problems outlined above are in large part solved by a microprocessor in accordance with the present invention. The microprocessor assigns a data transaction type to each instruction. The data tran... Read More
Inventors: Christie, David S.; McMinn, Brian D.; Meier, Stephan G.; Pickett, James K.;, Assignee: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (Sunnyvale, CA) |
BLSR node extension
The present invention provides a method to allow more than sixteen traffic terminating nodes to be configured in a SONET bi-directional line-switched ring (BLSR) network by utilizing unused bytes in ... Read More
Inventors: Bisson, Patrick R.; Elliott, Paul M.; Amon, Kate B.; Nigam, Anurag; Le, Phu S.;, Assignee: Cisco Systems, Inc. (San Jose, CA) |
Apparatus for dispatching data of the highest priority process having the highest priority channel to a processor
In accordance with the above and other objects of the invention, a priority interrupt and dispatcher mechanism is provided to continuously monitor internal or external interrupt requests from processe... Read More
Inventors: Monahan, Earnest M.; Patterson, Garvin W.;, Assignee: Honeywell Information Systems, Inc. (Waltham, MA) |
Instruction buffer system for switching execution of current instruction to a branch or to a return from subroutine
It is therefore an object of the present invention to efficiently control an instruction buffer for a branch operation of a program to increase the effectiveness of the instruction buffer for the prog... Read More
Inventors: Mori, Noriyasu; Tomita, Hiroshi;, Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd. (Tokyo, JP) |
Method and apparatus for implementing seamless playback of continuous media feeds
A method and system for storing a continuous feed of video is provided. According to one aspect of the invention, the continuous feed is encoded in a digital video format to produce a digital data str... Read More
Inventors: Weaver, Daniel; Pawson, David J.;, Assignee: nCube Corporation (Beaverton, OR); Thirdspace Living, Limited (GB) |
Alarm server systems, apparatus, and processes
The present inventions will be described by referring to apparatus and methods showing various examples of how the inventions can be made and used. When possible, like reference characters are used t... Read More
Inventors: Davies, Stephen W.;, Assignee: Netsolve, Inc. (Austin, TX) |
Synchronous clock regenerator for binary serial data signals
In accordance with the present invention, the incoming raw clock signal with arbitrary phase is fed into a tapped delay line which generates multiple delayed versions of the raw clock signal. The raw ... Read More
Inventors: Gryger, Dana A.; Drogichen, Daniel P.;, Assignee: Burroughs Corporation (Detroit, MI) |
Data transfer apparatus with automatic transmission rate adjustment
It is an object of the present invention to provide a data transfer apparatus capable of minimizing the data transfer time without causing an erroneous operation in a given operational environment. In... Read More
Inventors: Iizuka, Shinji; Kajinami, Mamoru; Kanno, Tetsuo;, Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation (Kanagawa-Ken, JP); Advanced Peripherals Technologies, Inc. (Armonk, NY) |
Data acquisition method and protocol controller circuit
Briefly, the present invention is directed to a data acquisition circuit for acquiring transfer data having first and second logical values using a strobe signal having first and second logical values... Read More
Inventors: Taki, Nobuhiro;, Assignee: Fujitsu Limited (Kawasaki, JP) |
Method and apparatus for synchronizing data received in an accelerated graphics port of a graphics memory system
The present invention provides a method and apparatus for receiving and synchronizing data transmitted to a host interface unit of a graphics memory system on the rising and falling edges of a strobe ... Read More
Inventors: Hammond, Maynard D.; Dewey, James M.;, Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Company (Palo Alto, CA) |
Transmission system with improved synchronization
The object of the present invention is to provide a transmission system according to the preamble in which it is possible to transfer accurate timing information in said packets. To achieve this objec... Read More
Inventors: Morrien, Albertus M.;, Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. (Eindhoven, NL) |
Interface circuit device for performing data sampling at optimum strobe timing by using stored data window information to determine the strobe timing
An object of the invention is to provide an interface circuit, which can accurately transfer data to any one of semiconductor devices in a system. Another object of the invention is to provide an inte... Read More
Inventors: Kuge, Shigehiro;, Assignee: Renesas Technology Corp. (Tokyo, JP) |
Managing connection requests in a dialup computer network
It is thus a primary goal of the present invention to manage service requests in a dialup computer network. It is a more particular object of the invention to redirect connection requests associated w... Read More
Inventors: Lita, Christian; Thompson, Joseph Raymond;, Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, NY) |
Access-method-independent exchange 3
The present invention provides a virtual network, sitting "above" the physical connectivity and thereby providing the administrative controls necessary to link various communication devices via an Acc... Read More
Inventors: Northrup, Charles J.;, Assignee: |
Fixed interconnection network method and apparatus for a modular mixed-resolution, N-dimensional configuration control mechanism
According to the present invention, as embodied and broadly described herein, a configuration control mechanism for dynamically and logically renaming elements of a mixed-radix, N-dimensional object s... Read More
Inventors: Estes, Mark D.;, Assignee: |
Semiconductor processing systems
OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS This disclosure of the invention is submitted in furtherance of the constitutional purposes of the U.S. Patent Laws "to promote the progress of science and useful arts" (... Read More
Inventors: Thompson, Raymon F.; Berner, Robert W.; Curtis, Gary L.; Culliton, Stephen P.; Wright, Blaine G.;, Assignee: Semitool, Inc. (Kalispell, MT) |
Read crossbar elimination in a VLIW processor
OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS FIG. 2 shows a VLIW processor according to the invention. The processor has an IIR 201 with m issue slots, S.sub.0, S.sub.1, . . . , S.sub.m, where m is an integer greate... Read More
Inventors: Jacobs, Eino;, Assignee: Philips Electronics North America Corporation (New York, NY) |
Method and system for maintaining strong ordering in a coherent memory system
The above and other needs are met by a method and system of strong ordering that uses timestamp signals to indicate the order in which transactions are sent to each processor. The timestamp signals tr... Read More
Inventors: Chaney, Kenneth; Chastain, David M.; Patrick, David M.;, Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Co. (Palo Alto, CA) |
System and method for concurrently requesting input/output and memory address space while maintaining order of data sent and returned therefrom
The problems outlined above are in large part solved by an improved bus interface unit hereof. The present bus interface unit can dispatch memory-destined request cycles (memory request cycles) concur... Read More
Inventors: Chin, Kenneth T.; Coffee, Clarence K.; Collins, Michael J.; Johnson, Jerome J.; Jones, Phillip M.; Lester, Robert A.; Piccirillo, Gary J.;, Assignee: Compaq Computer Corporation (Houston, TX) |
Associating buffers in a bus bridge with corresponding peripheral devices to facilitate transaction merging
The problems identified above are in large part addressed by a system and bus bridge design in which the bridges buffer pool is organized into multiple buffer sets and configured to associate each buf... Read More
Inventors: Chen, Wen-Tzer Thomas; Kelley, Richard A.; Neal, Danny Marvin; Thurber, Steven Mark;, Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, NY) |
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