Amano Corporation

Hirosada Watanabe

Hiroaki Yamagishi

Masayuki Mochizuki

Yuichi Ishizuka

Daisuke Fujita

Mitsuru Saito

A time card may have first and second card identifying sections disposed on opposite faces of the time card. The first card identifying section stores a most significant value of an identification of the time card, and the second card identifying section stores a least significant value of the card's identification. When combined to form a single value, the most and least significant values provide the time card identification. Also, a printing position indicator on the card identifies an initial printing position for the first and second card identifying sections to a time card recorder.

Time card and time recorder system using time card

The present invention provides a time recorder with a card feed rate adjustment function making it possible to print data for arrival and departure times to and from a job side at a correct position within a print column by adjusting a feed rate for a time card according to extension or shrinkage of the time card or characteristics of the time card such as a printing state within the print column. An adjustment value is computed by reading a start point and an end point printed on a time card TA or TB inserted into the time recorder with the mark sensors and counting a feed rate for the time card TA or TB from the start point to the end point with the encoder sensor and a feed rate for the car is adjusted according to the computed adjustment value.

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Yokohama, Japan

Hirosada Watanabe