Sony Corporation

Kazuhide Shiratori

Hiroshi Kikuchi

Takeshi Nakajima

Masanobu Hida

Toshiaki Nakanishi

Masahiro Uehara

Yukie Konoshita

A heat-sensitive transcription printer system is made up of a heat-sensitive transcription ink sheet cassette and a heat-sensitive transcription printing device on which said heat-sensitive transcription ink sheet cassette is loaded. On the heat-sensitive transcription ink sheet cassette is bonded an IC label having an IC memory a power receiving/supplying coil and a diode connected to the IC memory and a signal communication coil for performing communication of signals between the IC memory and the heat-sensitive transcription printing device. The inherent discrimination information is previously recorded on the heat-sensitive transcription ink sheet cassette and can be read out from it electrically. In this heat-sensitive transcription printing device the driving power is supplied from a power supply unit through a power supply coil power receiving/supplying coil and the diode to the IC memory A system controller reads out the discrimination information and the using hysteresis information from the IC memory through the signal communication coils to control the printing operation.

Heat-sensitive transcription printer system

A tension balancer is disclosed for an ink ribbon adapted for a printer for thermally transferring an image onto the printing paper while moving the ink ribbon together with the printing paper, the printer including: a platen for moving a piece of printing paper wound around the platen; and a thermal head for pressingly contacting the ink ribbon, interposed between a supply reel and a take-up reel, against the printing paper on an outer circumference of the platen. The tension balancer contacts at its end face with the ink ribbon over a full width of the ink ribbon for applying tension to the ink ribbon. The tension balancer is substantially in the form of a plate. At least one projection may be provided on the end face of the tension balancer.

Tension balancer device for ink ribbon

A cassette tape recording and/or reproducing apparatus has a pair of movable reel tables, the center distance between which is automatically so adjustable as to coincide with the center distance between the reels of any tape cassette optionally selected from various types of tape cassettes.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Kazuhide Shiratori