Brother Kogyo Kabushiki-kaisha

Isao Kawano

Takemi Yamamoto

Yuji Asano

A platen holder 8 is provided with a stopper member 12 which comes into contact with a lever 20 depressed when the platen holder 8 is rotated to a home position by removing of a cassette cover 2B from an upper cover 2A. The stopper member 12 is formed to have a contact plane 12A so that an angle .alpha. defined between the contact plane 12A and an imaginary line connecting a tip end R of the stopper member 12 and a fixed point P is set to approximately 90.degree. or less than 90.degree.. A projection part 13 is provided in the platen holder 8, which is to be pressed by a tape cassette 4 when inserted in a tape receiving part. When the platen holder 8 is rotated to an operational position after the cassette cover 2B is attached to the upper cover 2A, a clearance is produced between the projection part 13 of the platen holder 8 and the tape cassette 4.

Tape printing apparatus

An image recording apparatus which eliminates a positive film for carrying photomasks. The apparatus for recording an image on a recording medium uses a recording media including first and second recording mediums. The first recording medium has first and second surfaces and is provided with a first material whose phase is changeable upon light exposure, and the second recording medium is provided with a second material reactable with the first material for forming a final output image thereon. The image recording apparatus forms light-shieldable masks on the first surface of the first recording medium. A light exposure arrangement confronts the first surface of the first recording medium for irradiating light toward the mask and the first surface. A pressure-developing arrangement provides the output image on the second recording medium. The second surface of the first recording medium carries the first material, and the second material of the second recording medium confronts the second surface of the first recording medium at the pressure-developing means.

Image recording apparatus using microcapsules to form a color image

A thermo-magnetic recording device wherein a magnetized latent image is produced on a magnetic layer by locally heating the magnetic layer. The device includes a heat-generating ribbon for generating heat upon energization thereof, at least one working electrode movable relative to the magnetic layer in a recording direction, and relative to the heat-generating ribbon in sliding contact with the heat-generating ribbon, such that the at least one working electrode locally holds the heat-generating ribbon in contact with the magnetic layer, a deive for effecting a relative movement between the ribbon and the at least one working electrode, and at least one auxiliary electrode placed in direct or indirect contact with the heat-generating ribbon. An electric current is applied between the at least one working electrode and the at least one auxiliary electrode, to energize a local portion of the heat-generating ribbon which is currently in contact with the magnetic layer, thereby causing the energized portion of the heat-generating ribbon to generate heat for locally heating the magnetic layer to produce the magnetized latent image on the magnetic layer.

Growing community of inventors

Nagoya, Japan

Isao Kawano