Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Printer with low-power mode
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Application No.: US17935070Application Date: 2022-09-23
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Publication No.: US11889037B2Publication Date: 2024-01-30
- Inventor: Hirokazu Miyabayashi , Takuji Sakabe , Yuki Hiramatsu , Hiromasa Takahashi
- Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Applicant Address: JP Nagoya
- Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Current Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Current Assignee Address: JP Nagoya
- Agency: KENEALY VAIDYA LLP
- Priority: JP 21157870 2021.09.28
- Main IPC: H04N1/00
- IPC: H04N1/00

Abstract:
A printer includes a printing unit powered from a battery which is charged by a charge IC, and a processor. The processor sets a mode of the printer to a print mode, and sets the mode to a low-power mode in which total power consumption of the printer is lower than that in the print mode, in a state that the printing unit stops printing. In a case where the processor sets the mode to the low-power mode, the processor sets the mode to a first low-power mode, in which the charge IC is driven at a first SW frequency, when the charge IC works to charge the battery, and sets the mode to a second low-power mode, in which the charge IC is driven at a second SW frequency lower than the first SW frequency, when the charge IC stops the charge of the battery.
Public/Granted literature
- US20230102154A1 PRINTER Public/Granted day:2023-03-30
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