Display device having gravity-fed sheet feeder

• US 20050018248A1
• Filed: 08/23/2004
• Published: 01/27/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 03/20/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Zamtec Limited (Memjet Limited)
• Original Assignee: Zamtec Limited (Memjet Limited)
• Inventors: Silverbrook, Kia
• Application Number:
  US10/922,971
• Publication Number:
  US 20050018248A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 358/1.150
• CPC Class Codes: B41J 2/01 Ink jet
• CPC Class Codes: B41J 2/14427 Structure of ink jet print heads with thermal bend detached actuators
• CPC Class Codes: B41J 2/175 Ink supply systems ; Circuit parts therefor
• CPC Class Codes: B41J 2002/14435 Moving nozzle made of thermal bend detached actuator
• CPC Class Codes: B41J 3/28 for printing downwardly on flat surfaces, e.g. of books, drawings, boxes , envelopes, e.g. flat-bed ink-jet printers
• CPC Class Codes: B41J 3/445 Printers integrated in other types of apparatus, e.g. printers integrated in cameras
• CPC Class Codes: B41J 3/46 Printing mechanisms combined with apparatus providing a visual indication
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1601 Constructional details related to the housing of computer displays, e.g. of CRT monitors, of flat displays constructional details related to flat displays integrated in a portable computer, e.g. laptop, handheld computer G06F1/1637; constructional details related to television receivers H04N5/64
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 7/00 Constructional details common to different types of electric apparatus casings, cabinets, drawers H05K5/00

Abstract

A display device for use as a computer monitor, the display device comprising: a flat panel display for displaying images from a computer; a printhead for printing onto print media; a sheet feeder for receiving at least one sheet of the print media and feeding the at least one sheet to the printhead for printing, wherein the sheet feeder is at least partially fed by gravity.

Claims

1. A display device for use as a computer monitor, the display device comprising:

a flat panel display for displaying images from a computer;

a printhead for printing onto print media;

a sheet feeder for receiving at least one sheet of the print media and feeding the at least one sheet to the printhead for printing, wherein the sheet feeder is at least partially fed by gravity.

2. A display device according to claim 1, wherein the sheet feeder is configured to receive a single sheet of the print media at a time.

3. A display device according to claim 1, wherein the sheet feeder includes:

a multi-sheet media holder; and

a sheet media separator configured to separate a single sheet of the media from other sheets of the media in the media hole for supply to the printhead.

4. A display device according to claim 3, wherein the sheet media separator includes at least one rotatable grip member configured to engage an edge of the sheet media to be separated.

5. A display device according to claim 4, wherein the rotatable grip member is generally ‘

D’

-shaped in cross section.

6. A display device according to claim 1, configured to receive print data to be printed, and display data to be displayed on the flat panel display, from a computer system.

7. A display device according to claim 1, including a connection configured to allow releasable operative connection of the computer system to the display device, for receiving the print data and the display data from the computer system.

8. A printing a display device according to claim 7, wherein the connection includes at least one socket for accepting at least one corresponding data cable.

9. A display device according to claim 7, wherein the connection includes a wireless receiver for receiving the print data and the display data.

10. A display device according to claim 7, wherein the connection is a Universal Synchronous Bus (USB) connection.

11. A display device according to claim 1, wherein the printer is a process color printer.

12. A display device according to claim 1, wherein the printer is an inkjet printer.

13. A display device according to claim 12, wherein the printer has more than 5,000 inkjet nozzles.

14. A display device according to claim 1, wherein the printer is a page-width printer.

15. A display device according to claim 1, wherein the flat panel display measures at least 14 cm on the diagonal.

16. A display device as claimed in claim 1, the display device comprising:

a flat panel display for displaying images from a computer;

a stand for holding the flat panel display in at least one operative position; and

a printer, the printer including a printhead for printing onto paper;

wherein the stand is configured such that the at least one operative position includes one in which the flat panel display makes an angle of 0 to 45 degrees to the vertical.

17. A display device as claimed in claim 1, the display device comprising:

a flat panel display for displaying images from a computer;

a printer, the printer including;

(a) a printer controller configured to receive print data in a compressed form, decompress the print data, and output dot data based on the decompressed print data;

(b) a pagewidth printhead for receiving the dot data and printing onto print media.

18. A display device as claimed in claim 1, the display device comprising:

a flat panel display;

a printer, including a printhead for printing onto paper; and

a print media print path along which print media is supplied to the printer, wherein at least a majority of the print path is in a plane that is substantially parallel to a plane defined by the flat panel display.

19. A display device as claimed in claim 1, the display device comprising:

a flat panel display;

a printer, including a printhead for printing onto paper; and

a sheet feeder for feeding print media to the printhead, the device being configured such that standard print media to be printed is supported, immediately prior to commencement of printing, such that at least an edge of the print media is visible above an upper edge of a the flat panel display.

20. A display device as claimed in claim 1, the display device comprising:

a flat panel display for displaying images from a computer, the flat panel defining a plane;

a printer, including a pagewidth printhead for printing onto print media; and

a print media print path along which print media is supplied to the printer, wherein at least a majority of the print path is parallel to the plane in at least one direction.

21. A display device as claimed in claim 1, the display device comprising:

a flat panel display for displaying images received from a computer system; and

a printer, the printer including a pagewidth printhead for printing onto print media, the pagewidth printhead extending across a majority of the width of the device.

22. A display device as claimed in claim 1, the display device comprising:

a flat panel display for displaying images received from a computer; and

a printer, the printer including a pagewidth printhead for printing onto print media, the printhead being disposed adjacent a lower portion of the display device.