Shinko Electric Company, Ltd.

Haruki Takeuchi

Hayami Sugiyama

Toshiki Nakamura

Kazuomi Murata

Hideki Maeda

Shintaro Okamoto

Kawabe Morio

Shoji Kawase

Color printer

This printer performs a heating process via a thermal head on TA paper provided with color forming layers and fixes the heat processed TA paper via a fixing lamp The fixing lamp is formed from: a fluorescent tube that has a fluorescent coating applied to the inside surface of the glass tube and inside which are sealed mercury and noble gases; filament electrodes provided at both ends of the fluorescent tube; a hot cathode fluorescent lamp formed from lead wires that supply power to the filament electrodes; and a magnetic circuit that is provided on a side surface of the fluorescent tube and that generates a magnetic field that acts on the current that flows through the fluorescent tube when power is fed to the filament electrodes.

Thermal printer and method of designing hot cathode fluorescent tube for thermal printer

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Ise, Japan

Haruki Takeuchi