Oliff & Berridge
Printer carriage homing mechanism
 A printer which includes a position controller for moving a printing head to a predetermined initial position by driving a stepping motor during initial processing operation, and a current controller for supplying a second current to the stepping motor to spontaneously start the stepping motor. Since the stepping motor is driven by the second current which is smaller than a first current to be supplied during printing, the noise to be produced during the initial homing operation can be minimized. 
Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
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B41J H02P Y10S
inventional inventional additional
Masashi Kiroyuki Takeshi Toshiki
Suzuki Kato Niikawa Morita