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(11) EP 0 345 088 A3

(12) EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION

(88) Date of publication A3:
11.04.1990 Bulletin 1990/15

(43) Date of publication A2:
06.12.1989 Bulletin 1989/49

(21) Application number: 89305597.0

(22) Date of filing: 02.06.1989
(51) International Patent Classification (IPC)4B41J 29/36
(84) Designated Contracting States:
DE FR GB IT

(30) Priority: 03.06.1988 JP 136786/88

(71) Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Tokyo (JP)

(72) Inventor:
  • Kawanabe, Tetsuya
    Yokohama-shi Kanagawa-ken (JP)

(74) Representative: Beresford, Keith Denis Lewis et al
BERESFORD & Co. 2-5 Warwick Court High Holborn
London WC1R 5DJ
London WC1R 5DJ (GB)


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    (54) Character processing apparatus


    (57) There is provided a character processing apparatus such as an electronic typewriter which can erase the recorded characters on a word unit basis. The apparatus comprises: a keyboard (1) to input a plurality of character strings such as English words; a memory to store the character strings input by the keyboard; a printer head (3) which can record the character strings stored in the memory onto a recording paper and can delete the recorded character strings; a deletion instructing device to instruct to delete one of the character strings recorded on the paper (7) by the printer head (3); and a control which is constructed in a manner such that in response to the deletion instruction, when the printer head exists at the position corresĀ­ponding to the character string recorded on the paper (7), this character string is deleted, and when the printer head (3) does not exist at the position corresponding to the character string recorded on the paper (7), the printer head (3) is moved to the position of the nearest character string and this character string is deleted. The printer head (3) is a head of the type wheel printer mechanism.







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