Incremental printing of symbolic information – Ink jet – Medium and processing means
Reexamination Certificate
2006-04-27
2010-12-14
Luu, Matthew (Department: 2861)
Incremental printing of symbolic information
Ink jet
Medium and processing means
C347S139000, C361S212000, C361S221000, C101S229000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07850298
ABSTRACT:
An image forming apparatus that includes a discharge tray on which a sheet discharged from a discharge port is stacked; a sheet retainer, which guides the sheet discharged from the discharge port onto the discharge tray and is displaced in abutment against an uppermost sheet stacked on the discharge tray, the sheet retainer removing electricity of the sheet; and a detection unit, which detects a stack of the sheet on the discharge tray on a basis of a position of the sheet retainer.
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Website: Amazon.com, Dated Aug. 17, 2009, Screen Shot at http://www.amazon.com/Xerox-Docuprint-Network-Laser-45ppm/dp/B000067SHE.
JP 2004-115254 A—English (Machine) Translation of JP 2004-115254, http://dossier1.ipdl.inpit.go.jp/AIPN/aipn—call—transl.ipdl?—Translated Feb. 17, 2010.
Kamimura Masahiro
Ono Akehiro
Baker Botts LL.P.
Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
Luu Matthew
Zimmermann John P
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