Display device configured such that an edge of print media is visible above an upper edge of the device

• US 7,692,815 B2
• Filed: 08/23/2004
• Issued: 04/06/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 03/20/2003
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Zamtec Limited (Memjet Limited)
• Original Assignee: Silverbrook Research Pty Limited
• Inventors: Silverbrook, Kia
• Primary Examiner(s): Park; Chan S
• Application Number:
  US10/922,848
• Publication Number:
  US 20050018245A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,052 Days
• Field of Search: 358/1.1, 358/1.5, 358/1.8, 358/1.15, 358/3.06, 358/3.07, 358/426.13, 358/426.14, 358/450, 347/37, 347/42, 347/104, 347/3, 347/101, 347/108, 382/232, 382242-244, 400/188, 400/693, 400/416, 400/419
• US Class Current: 358/1.8
• 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;
  • 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.

Claims

1. A monitor for connecting to an external computer, the monitor comprising:

a housing;

a flat panel display disposed within the housing for displaying a video signal provided from the external computer through a video input socket of the monitor, flat panel display comprising a screen;

a printer provided behind a back of said flat panel display as viewed by the user and operationally integrated with the flat panel display, the printer including a pagewidth printhead for printing onto print media print data provided from the external computer through a serial data connection of the monitor; and

a sheet feeder for feeding a sheet of print media from a stack of print media past the pagewidth printhead, the stack of print media being located behind the screen and inside the housing such that, immediately prior to commencement of printing, at least an edge of the print media is visible above an upper edge of the flat panel display,

wherein the printer is disposed within the housing,

wherein at least a majority of a print path of the print media for printing is in a plane that is substantially parallel to a plane defined by the flat panel display.

2. A monitor according to claim 1, being configured such that the print media to be printed passes between the flat panel display and the pagewidth printhead.

3. A monitor according to claim 1, configured such that the print media to be printed on passes behind the flat panel display and the pagewidth printhead relative to a viewing position of the flat panel display.

4. A monitor according to claim 1, wherein the printer is a process color printer.

5. A monitor according to claim 1, wherein the printer is an inkjet printer.

6. A monitor according to claim 5, wherein the printer has more than 5,000 inkjet nozzles.

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

8. A monitor as claimed in claim 1, wherein the sheet feeder is at least partially fed by gravity.

9. A monitor as claimed in claim 1 further comprising:

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

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.

10. A monitor as claimed in claim 1, the printer further including:

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 to the pagewidth printhead.