Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.

Kazuki Obara

Hiroshi Kikuchi

Yukio Ota

Jiro Tanuma

Hisao Ono

Shigeki Nakajima

Yoshiharu Momiyama

Kazuyoshi Yoshida

Kuniharu Hayashi

Shyoichi Watanabe

Masanori Maekawa

Kiyoshi Matsuda

Yoshitomo Koga

Replaceable toner cartridge with internal stirring member, and

In a thermal transfer recording device which performs thermal transfer recording by using an ink ribbon which applies monochrome or polychrome transfer of ink to a base film and moves the ink ribbon and paper holding them between a thermal head and a platen, a first control section outputs a signal for the control of the heat quantity of the thermal head based on input binary data, a second control section outputs a signal for the control of the heat quantity of the thermal head based on input multi-value data, a setting unit outputs setting results based on the setting of the binary data print mode or the multi-value data print mode, and a selection unit selects the output signal of the first control section or the second control section based on the above mentioned setting results and supplies it to the above-mentioned thermal head.

Thermal transfer recording device

A carriage mechanism of a printer includes a carriage frame, a printed circuit board mounted on the carriage frame and having an exposed wiring portion and a plurality portion of guide holes, and a cable having at one end thereof an exposed wiring portion to be electrically connected to the exposed wiring portion of the printed circuit board. An inked ribbon feed mechanism has guide projections to be inserted into the guide holes and a plurality of elastic hooks for fastening to the carriage frame. A cable fixing mechanism includes a flexible film member to be superimposed over the end of the flexible cable and fixed thereto. One end of the flexible film member is shaped as the end of the flexible cable and the other end of the flexible film member is progressively narrower and projects toward a folded portion of the flexible cable.

Easily assembled carriage mechanism of printer

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Tokyo, Japan

Kazuki Obara