Brother Kogyo Kabushiki-kaisha

Chie Nakashima

Yoshikatsu Suito

Takaaki Banno

Chisato Yoshimura

Yuki Hokari

Kohei Terada

Shohei Tsuchimori

Yumiko Oshika

Masaya Fujita

Shiori Mizutani

A medium to be mounted in and to be printed with a printer includes: a release material; a slit; and a print label. The release material is opaque. The slit is provided in the release material and has a square shape including a first side, a second side, a third side, and a fourth side. The first side and the second side oppose each other. The third side and the fourth side oppose each other. The print label is fixed to the release material so as to span across the first side of the slit.

Medium including release material, slit, and print label and method of wrapping the same

In a medium conveyed in a first direction, a first slit has a square shape including first, second, third, and fourth sides. A second slit is positioned downstream from the first slit in the first direction and has a square shape including fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth sides. The first, second, fifth, and sixth sides are parallel to the first direction. The third, fourth, seventh, and eighth sides are parallel to a second direction orthogonal to the first direction. The third and seventh sides are positioned upstream from the fourth and eighth sides in the first direction, respectively. A first print label spans across the first and second sides. A second print label spans across the fifth and sixth sides. A mark has an upstream edge in the first direction positioned downstream from the fourth side and a downstream edge in the first direction positioned upstream from the seventh side.

Medium used with printer and including label and mark provided on release material

A label is to be wrapped around an adherend after being printed. The adherend has a diameter equal to or smaller than a prescribed diameter. In the label, a base material has a printing surface. An adhesive layer is provided on an opposite side surface of the base material from the printing surface. A release material is bonded to the adhesive layer with a portion of the adhesive layer exposed. The release material has a higher stiffness than the base material. A mark for alignment is to be used when bonding together exposed sections of the adhesive layer or an exposed section of the adhesive layer with the release material in order to form the label into a loop shape. The mark is provided at a position for forming the label in the loop shape having an inner diameter greater than the prescribed diameter.

Label to be wrapped around adherend and method of printing and attaching the same

The disclosure discloses a tape roll that winds a tape with a minimum radius R. The tape before being wound includes a flexible material layer. The flexible material layer includes flat plate-shaped reflectors inside and having a thickness T. On condition that a flexural modulus of the reflectors is G, a bending strength of the reflectors is A, and an average particle diameter of the reflectors is 2L, the reflectors satisfy the following relationships R/L{1&#x2212;cos(L/R)}&#x3c;A/G, and 2L&#x3e;T.

Tape roll, tape cartridge, and method for manufacturing tape roll

The disclosure discloses an adhesive tape cartridge including an adhesive tape roll. The adhesive roll winds an adhesive tape around a predetermined axis in a housing. The adhesive tape includes a base layer, a first particle-containing adhesive layer, and a second particle-containing adhesive layer. The first particle-containing adhesive layer is disposed on a first side of the base layer in a thickness direction and comprises an adhesive to which particles are added. The second particle-containing adhesive layer is disposed in contact with a surface on the first side of the first particle-containing adhesive layer in the thickness direction and comprises an adhesive to which particles of the same material as the particles are added.

Adhesive tape cartridge, adhesive tape roll, and method of manufacturing an adhesive tape roll

The disclosure discloses an adhesive tape cartridge including an adhesive tape roll. The adhesive tape roll winds an adhesive tape around a predetermined axis in a housing. The adhesive tape includes a base layer and a particle-comprising adhesive layer. The particle-comprising adhesive layer is disposed on one side of the base layer in a thickness direction and comprises an adhesive comprising large diameter particles and small diameter particles. An average particle diameter of the large diameter particles is 30 &#x3bc;m to 200 &#x3bc;m. An average particle diameter of the small diameter particles is 0.2 &#x3bc;m to 20 &#x3bc;m.

Adhesive tape cartridge, adhesive tape roll, production method for adhesive tape roll, and printer having cartridge

An adhesive tape cartridge can include an adhesive tape roll that winds a double-faced adhesive tape. The double-faced adhesive tape includes a base material layer, a first adhesive layer, a second adhesive layer, a third adhesive layer, and a separation material layer. The first adhesive layer is disposed on one side of the base material layer and includes an adhesive with a first pigment added. The second adhesive layer is disposed on the one side of the first adhesive layer and includes an adhesive with a second pigment added. The third adhesive layer is disposed on the other side of the base material layer. The separation material layer is disposed on the other side of the third adhesive layer. A volume ratio of the first pigment in the first adhesive layer is greater than a volume ratio of the second pigment in the second adhesive layer.

Adhesive tape cartridge, adhesive tape roll, and manufacturing method of adhesive tape roll

The disclosure discloses an adhesive tape cartridge including an adhesive tape roll that is disposed in a housing and winds a double-faced adhesive tape. The double-faced adhesive tape comprises a base material layer, a first adhesive layer, a second adhesive layer, and a separation material layer. The first adhesive layer is disposed on one side of the base material layer in a thickness direction and comprises an adhesive with a first pigment. The second adhesive layer is disposed on the other side of the base material layer and comprises an adhesive with a second pigment. The separation material layer is disposed on the other side of the second adhesive layer. An average particle diameter of the first pigment in the first adhesive layer and an average particle diameter of the second pigment in the second adhesive layer is different from each other.

A test chip includes a substrate, a lid member, a separation portion, a first flow path, and a first holding portion. The substrate includes a surface on which a flow path is formed. The lid member covers the surface of the substrate. By centrifugal force, the separation portion separates components of a test object liquid into a separated component and a residual component having a larger specific gravity than a specific gravity of the separated component. The first flow path guides the separated component from the separation portion to a receiving portion. The first holding portion holds at least part of the residual component overflowing from the separation portion in a case where the separated component separated in the separation portion is moved from the separation portion to the receiving portion. The first holding portion is connected to at least one of the separation portion and the first flow path.

Growing community of inventors

Nagoya, Japan

Chie Nakashima