Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Hitoshi Shimaoka

Masanobu Katsumura

Takanori Muranaka

Shinji Arase

When a visible image on a printing area of a rewritable recording medium is erased by an erase head, a control unit and an erasing control device, respectively, control the electric current supplied to the erase head, based on a power supply pattern recorded in a storage device and a temperature information from a first temperature detecting device for measuring the ambient temperature.

Rewritable medium recording apparatus

Upper unit and lower unit are jointed with a hinge to form a body, and a card transfer path is provided between the units, and a recording/reproducing head and an image forming head are installed separated in the units opposing to each other, for making the maintenance servicing easy. In addition, a handle and elastic clamping components are provided on one of the units, and accepting components to accept the clamping components on the other unit, in order to make the clamping of both units in closed state firm and the open/close operation easy.

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Kumamoto, Japan

Hitoshi Shimaoka