EP0158718A2 - Procédé de commande de la position d'impression dans une machine à écrire ou similaire pour le soulignement automatique d'un passage de texte - Google Patents

Procédé de commande de la position d'impression dans une machine à écrire ou similaire pour le soulignement automatique d'un passage de texte Download PDF

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Publication number: EP0158718A2
Authority: EP; European Patent Office
Prior art keywords: stored; horizontal position; register; character; underline
Prior art date: 1984-03-30
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EP84114548A

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Gerhard Dipl.-Ing. Brinkmann

Claus Dipl.-Ing. Bordasch

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AEG Olympia Office GmbH

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Olympia Werke AG

AEG Olympia Office GmbH

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1984-03-30

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1984-11-30

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1985-10-23

1984-11-30 Application filed by Olympia Werke AG, AEG Olympia Office GmbH filed Critical Olympia Werke AG

1985-10-23 Publication of EP0158718A2 publication Critical patent/EP0158718A2/fr

1988-01-07 Publication of EP0158718A3 publication Critical patent/EP0158718A3/de

1989-11-15 Application granted granted Critical

1989-11-15 Publication of EP0158718B1 publication Critical patent/EP0158718B1/fr

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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
- B41J—TYPEWRITERS; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS, i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS
- B41J5/00—Devices or arrangements for controlling character selection
- B41J5/30—Character or syllable selection controlled by recorded information
- B41J5/44—Character or syllable selection controlled by recorded information characterised by storage of recorded information
- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
- B41J—TYPEWRITERS; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS, i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS
- B41J29/00—Details of, or accessories for, typewriters or selective printing mechanisms not otherwise provided for
- B41J29/26—Devices, non-fluid media or methods for cancelling, correcting errors, underscoring or ruling

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the invention relates to a method specified in the preamble of claim 1.
a requirement for the operation of typewriters or similar machines is to be able to underline defined areas of an entered text without hindering rapid entry of characters, but the underlining of an input text section does not have to be postponed to a later time because the Otherwise the operator would have to make a note of this area, move the printing unit back to the starting position of this area and have to manually enter multiple underlines.
Each character entered as well as the underline command codes are then arranged in the memory in the exact order in which they are written out on paper by the printing unit of the machine. Entering the second underline command at the end of the section to be underlined also means that the memory contents are searched in the opposite direction until the start code for the underline area is found between the stored characters. Thereafter, each character to the right of this code is automatically underlined until the end code is found in the memory.
This solution requires a strict order of the stored characters in the way they appear on paper. The rigidity of such a storage is undesirable in many cases, among other things because storage spaces for all spaces, tab changes, etc. must also be occupied.
the invention is based on the object of providing a method of the type mentioned for underlining defined text sections in which the writing flow of the operator of a machine equipped therewith is not impeded, but in which no memory built up with fixed position assignments is required.
the advantages of the invention are, in particular, that the design of the character memory and thus the entire processor control of the machine is not hindered or forced into certain forms by the provision of an underline function which does not involve any operating problems.
the control sequences for various machine functions associated with the character input and character storage can be designed according to your own requirements when using the solution according to the invention independently of the underline function.
FIG. 1 of a typewriter having the method according to the invention consists only of the elements necessary for understanding the invention. These are a keyboard 1, a printing unit 2 and a control unit 3 with a program memory 4 and a data memory 5, which are connected to one another via a collecting line 6.
the control unit 3, the program memory 4 and the data memory 5 are part of a microprocessor control 7 of the machine, which is why the functions of all the components mentioned below, which are involved in the control, such as. B. counters and registers can basically be implemented by program sequences.
the printing unit 2 contains u. a. a platen roller 8, from which a record carrier 9 can be shifted in the vertical direction (arrow direction A, B) in a known manner.
a step-by-step motor 10 serves as the drive for this purpose.
a printing unit 11, which has a rotatable type plate 12 as the type carrier, can be moved horizontally by another step-by-step motor 13 (arrow direction C, D).
the characters of a text line can thus be printed side by side on the record carrier 9, whereas by shifting the record carrier vertically 9 line switching can be carried out and text lines can be arranged one below the other.
the keyboard 1 has various function command keys, from which here only a key 17 for entering an underline command, a key 18 for entering an underline end command and a key 19 for entering a command for line switching (possibly in connection with a command to reset the printing unit 11 in the left start position) are shown. All function commands can also be entered in a known manner by operating a code key together with a specific key in the character keypad without special keys having to be provided for this.
a query of the keyboard 1 determines whether a key has been pressed and which key it is. If, as shown in FIG. 2, a character key in the character keypad 14 has been actuated, a character code word derived from the key signal and representing the character is stored in the data memory 5 under the control of the control unit 3. The memory location into which the character code word is written has been addressed by an address which is provided in a known manner by an address counter which can be incremented and decremented in the control unit 3. After the character code word has been stored, the address counter is incremented so that the next memory location in the data memory 5 is addressed.
the microprocessor control 7 has a step counter 20, the counting function of which is coupled to the step movement of the printing unit 11. For each step that the printing unit 11 or the motor 13 driving the printing unit executes, the step counter reading is incremented (direction of movement D) or decremented (direction of movement C). The step counter 20 thus always reflects the actual position of the printing unit 11 along the writing line.
a step of the printing unit 11 or an incrementing or decrementing step of the step counter 20 does not have to be done with one Column step of the font division in the printed text match.
a column step can also consist of several elementary steps which the motor 13 has to carry out.
Such a subdivision is e.g. This is necessary, for example, if the machine is to be able to reproduce text with a proportional character spacing or if the possibility should exist of inserting characters between the column steps.
a column step consisting of several elementary steps would be carried out after each character print and the step counter would be increased by a corresponding number of steps. In the following, however, in order not to make the understanding unnecessarily difficult, only one step per character spacing is assumed.
the position in the step counter 20 is stored in the next addressed memory location, and the address counter is again incremented.
the control unit 3 now outputs the corresponding control signals to the printing unit 11, by means of which the type support 12 is set to the character to be printed, after which the character is printed.
a further control information from the control unit 3 to the printing unit 2 now causes the motor 13 to move the printing unit 11 in the direction of the arrow D by one column step.
the step counter 20 is incremented so that it indicates the new position of the printing unit 11.
the control unit 3 starts a memory search with which the largest position value stored for a character is searched for in the data memory 5. This position value is stored in a second register 22, and the motor 13 is controlled by the control unit 3 to shift the printing unit 11 by one column step in the reverse direction.
the pedometer 20 is decremented. A comparison now follows as to whether the pedometer reading corresponds to the position value stored in the first register 21. If no match is found, step switching in the reverse direction, step counter decrementing and comparison are carried out until the two values match.
the type carrier 12 is adjusted to the type bearing the underline and the imprint of this type.
the motor 13 is actuated in order to shift the printing unit 11 by one step in the writing direction (that is to say forward), and the step counter 20 is incremented again.
the step count is with the standing in the second register 22 Posi - tion value compared. If no match is found, the underline is printed again, a step change in the writing direction is carried out and the pedometer 20 is incremented. This process is repeated until the pedometer reading matches the position value stored in the second register 22.
the result of this positive comparison result is that the control causes the printing unit 2 to shift the printing unit 11 by a further column step in the writing direction, but does not print the type to do more.
the step counter 20 is incremented and the printing unit is now in the next blank column position after the underlined text section.
the printing unit 11 is first shifted to the left position of an area to be underlined and the underlining is then carried out with a movement to the right, it is readily apparent that the underlining also progresses to the left starting with the position value in the second register 22 and after its completion the printing unit 11 can then be adjusted to the right to the first free position behind the underlining area.
the characters are also printed by the printing unit 11 on the recording medium 9 immediately when the characters are entered.
the step counter 20 then does not designate the current position of the printing unit 11, rather it counts the writing positions of the characters entered one after the other in the manner in which they would be assumed by the printing unit 11 if they were printed out at the same time.
the underlining process described would then be carried out internally by the control unit 3 in the data memory 5, so that when the text was subsequently written out, the printing unit 11 would carry out the movement sequence described.

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EP84114548A 1984-03-30 1984-11-30 Procédé de commande de la position d'impression dans une machine à écrire ou similaire pour le soulignement automatique d'un passage de texte Expired EP0158718B1 (fr)

Applications Claiming Priority (2)

Application Number	Priority Date	Filing Date	Title
DE19843411849 DE3411849A1 (de)	1984-03-30	1984-03-30	Verfahren zum steuern der schreibposition in einer schreib- oder aehnlichen maschine fuer ein automatisches unterstreichen eines textabschnittes
DE3411849		1984-03-30

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EP0158718A2 true EP0158718A2 (fr)	1985-10-23
EP0158718A3 EP0158718A3 (en)	1988-01-07
EP0158718B1 EP0158718B1 (fr)	1989-11-15

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US (1)	US4629341A (fr)
EP (1)	EP0158718B1 (fr)
JP (1)	JPS612587A (fr)
DE (2)	DE3411849A1 (fr)

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US4818130A (en) *	1986-11-19	1989-04-04	Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha	Character erasable printing apparatus including selective erasing of variable length underline
JPS63252773A (ja) *	1987-04-09	1988-10-19	Brother Ind Ltd	文書作成装置
DE3729097A1 (de) *	1987-09-01	1989-03-09	Olympia Aeg	Verfahren zum einstellen der betriebsparameter in einer mikroprozessorgesteuerten schreib- oder einer sonstigen bueromaschine
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1984
- 1984-03-30 DE DE19843411849 patent/DE3411849A1/de active Granted
- 1984-11-30 DE DE8484114548T patent/DE3480468D1/de not_active Expired
- 1984-11-30 EP EP84114548A patent/EP0158718B1/fr not_active Expired
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- 1985-02-22 US US06/704,560 patent/US4629341A/en not_active Expired - Fee Related
- 1985-03-29 JP JP60064082A patent/JPS612587A/ja active Pending

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Publication number	Publication date
EP0158718B1 (fr)	1989-11-15
JPS612587A (ja)	1986-01-08
EP0158718A3 (en)	1988-01-07
DE3480468D1 (en)	1989-12-21
DE3411849C2 (fr)	1990-04-26
DE3411849A1 (de)	1985-10-10
US4629341A (en)	1986-12-16

Publication	Publication Date	Title
DE3153020C2 (fr)	1988-10-13
EP0020947B1 (fr)	1983-07-06	Appareil de traitement de mots avec un dispositif d'affichage
DE2625432C3 (de)	1982-03-11	Einrichtung zur Schriftartauswahl
EP0144581B1 (fr)	1988-11-02	Procédé et dispositif pour l'inscription mécanique sur un formulaire
DE2754441C2 (de)	1985-08-22	Schaltungsanordnung zum automatischen Korrekturlesen
DE2458098C2 (de)	1986-09-11	Schreibmaschine
DE1436446B2 (de)	1970-05-21	Vorrichtung zum beliebigen zeilenweisen Abteilen und Ausschließen eines Drucktextes
DE2646744A1 (de)	1977-04-28	Einrichtung zum unterstreichen bei schreibautomaten
DE2906883C2 (fr)	1989-03-16
DE2654294C3 (de)	1981-08-20	Reihendrucker
DE2920494C2 (de)	1983-04-21	Verfahren zum temporären Einrücken des Zeilenanfanges in Schreibmaschinen
DE2920597A1 (de)	1979-11-29	Verfahren zum repositionieren der druckposition in schreibmaschinen
DE3005376C2 (fr)	1991-01-17
EP0158718B1 (fr)	1989-11-15	Procédé de commande de la position d'impression dans une machine à écrire ou similaire pour le soulignement automatique d'un passage de texte
EP0027490B1 (fr)	1984-10-03	Machine à écrire à mémoire avec porte-caractères interchangeables
EP0158719B1 (fr)	1989-11-15	Méthode pour la remise en position de départ de l'élément imprimeur d'une machine à écrire ou similaire
DE2920563C2 (fr)	1988-04-07
DE2416587A1 (de)	1974-10-17	Vorrichtung zur informationsaufzeichnung
DE2920493C2 (de)	1985-12-19	Verfahren zum Löschen von Zeichen in einer Schreibmaschine mit Korrektureinrichtung und Zeilenspeicher
DE1611456C3 (fr)	1975-03-06
DE3781971T2 (de)	1993-03-04	Dokumentverarbeitungsapparat.
DE3545916C2 (fr)	1990-01-25
DE3538637C2 (fr)	1991-01-24
DE3927858C2 (de)	1994-07-14	Druckvorrichtung
DE3010430C2 (fr)	1987-09-17

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