Tokyo Electric Co.

Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha

Hiromoto Ishii

Tsuyoshi Matsushita

Hisao Suzuki

Akira Oda

Eiichi Furuya

A serial printer apparatus comprises a print heat for printing on a medium according to a received character signal, a carrier on which the print head is provided and which runs the print head over an unprintable region and a printable region, and a control circuit for monitoring the running speed of the carrier and controlling the speed of the carrier by accelerating or decelerating the carrier while suppressing the amount of fluctuation of the speed at least in the printable region.

Serial printer which provides acceleration control of carrier

A reader comprises a feeding path for boarding pass to be inserted in various orientations, pairs of feeding rollers for transporting the boarding pass along the path, and four sensor units arranged along the path each for sensing a signal recorded on the boarding pass inserted in a particular orientation. The reader also comprises a demodulation unit for demodulating each signal sensed by the sensor units, a monitoring circuit for determining which one of the sensor units of has sensed the recorded signal, a switch circuit, for electrically connecting the demodulation unit to the sensor unit which the monitor circuit determines has sensed the recorded signal, and a read circuit for reading flight information by extracting a series of digital data from each demodulated signal output by the demodulation unit and converting the series of digital data into the parallel form in accordance with the particular orientation of the boarding pass facing the sensor unit which the monitor circuit determines has sensed the recorded signal.

Apparatus for reading a magnetic stripe on a boarding pass regardless of

A card issuing apparatus comprising a convey path for a card, a conveying section for moving the card along the convey path, a magnetic card reading/writing device and a thermal printer which are arranged on the convey path and sequentially subject the card to magnetical recording and printing, respectively. The card issuing apparatus further comprises a main processor connected to receive boarding information, for converting the boarding information into control data for the magnetical recording and the printing, a memory section for storing the control data supplied from the main processor, and a sub-processor for causing each of the magnetic card reading/writing device and the thermal printer to process the card according to corresponding control data stored in the memory section while the card passes through the magnetic card reading/writing device and the thermal printer.

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Mishima, Japan

Hiromoto Ishii