Seiko Epson Corporation

King Jim Co., Ltd.

Seiko Epson Corporation and King Jim Co., Ltd.

Kenichi Nakajima

Hideki Oikawa

Kenji Watanabe

Takanobu Kameda

Tomoyuki Shimmura

Hiroshi Kuriyama

Eiji Tukahara

Taishi Sasaki

Chieko Aida

Tetsu Nakayama

Shinsaku Kosuge

Hideo Sodeyama

Tomoyuki Kubota

Akihiro Shintani

Yoshihiro Tatara

Kunihiko Matsuhashi

Yoshiyuki Yanagisawa

Takaaki Ozawa

Daisuke Sato

Yasutomo Takahashi

Hidetoshi Hashizume

Nobuyuki Horii

Tsutomu Taniguchi

Kazuaki Morozumi

Shinobu Nakazawa

Tadashi Inaba

Fumihiro Misawa

Sasaki Taishi

A ribbon reeling mechanism includes: a gear supporting member that supports a clutch gear rotatably and is configured to move between a mesh position at which the clutch gear supported by the gear supporting member is in mesh with a first reeling-side gear and a non-mesh position at which the clutch gear supported by the gear supporting member is not in mesh with the first reeling-side gear; a clutch impeding spring that causes a clutch impeding force of impeding movement from the mesh position to the non-mesh position to act on the gear supporting member when a feed motor starts rotating in the second rotation direction; a drive member engaged with the gear supporting member; and a clutch drive mechanism that causes the gear supporting member to move to the non-mesh position against the clutch impeding force when the feed motor rotates in the second rotation direction.

Ribbon reeling mechanism and tape printing apparatus

A band to be attached to a wrist-worn device body including a case, a lug provided at a side face of the case, a pin supported by the lug, and an attachment face, the band including a band body, a coupler body member coupled to an end portion of the band body, the coupler body member being provided with a contact face abuttable against the attachment face and a guide groove into which the pin is insertable, and a fixing member attached to the coupler body member to be movable between a fixing position for biasing the pin, inserted into the guide groove, in a direction away from the attachment face to fix the coupler body member onto the wrist-worn device body, and an attaching-detaching position for enabling insertion of the pin into the guide groove and detachment of the pin inserted into the guide groove.

Band and wrist-worn device

A tape cartridge, to be installed in a tape printing apparatus having a cartridge installation portion, includes a tape-shaped member having a plurality of label portions provided along a length direction of the tape-shaped member and a plurality of detection target portions provided along the length direction of the tape-shaped member so as to correspond to the plurality of label portions on one side thereof in a tape width direction projecting in the tape width direction. The tape cartridge further includes a cartridge case in which the tape-shaped member is accommodated so as to be capable of being paid out. The cartridge case has a slit-shaped delivery port. A detection target passage of the tape delivery port, through which the respective detection target portions pass, has a chamfering portion at a corner on an inner surface side of the cartridge case of an edge thereof.

Tape cartridge and tape feeding apparatus

A sheet cartridge includes a label sheet and a cartridge case. The label sheet has plural label portions temporarily attached at a predetermined label pitch to a temporary label attachment area that is one end in a direction of width of a long backing sheet, and plural label position detection target portions provided at a detection target end portion that is an other end in a direction of width of the backing sheet and configured to indicate a print start position and a cutting position for the each label portion. The cartridge case accommodates the label sheet that is wound, in such a way that the label sheet can be reeled off, and in which cartridge case a detection opening for protruding each label position detection target portion for detection is formed.

Sheet cartridge, label creation apparatus, and control method for label creation apparatus

A tape cartridge includes a tape-shaped member having a plurality of label portions along a length direction of the tape-shaped member and a plurality of detection target portions corresponding to the plurality of label portions on one side thereof projecting in the tape width direction, and a cartridge case in which the tape-shaped member is accommodated. The cartridge case has an exposed area, in which the detection target portions are exposed to detect passage of the detection target portions and a tape delivery port that is formed to eject the tape-shaped member to an outside of the cartridge case. A distance between the tape delivery port and an upstream end of the exposed area is shorter than a distance between an end on a paying-out tip-end side of the detection target portion and an end on a paying-out terminal-end side of another of the label portions.

Provided is a tape cartridge or the like that prevents detection target portions from contacting a finger or the like when an exposed area is provided in a cartridge case to cause the detection target portions of a tape-shaped member to be exposed. A tape cartridge includes a label tapehaving a plurality of label portionsand a plurality of detection target portionsand a cartridge case and is installed in a tape feeding apparatus that feeds the label tapebased on the passage detection of the detection target portionsto separate the label portionsat a cut spoton the label tapeat a cut position Poutside the cartridge case. The cartridge case has an exposed area in which the respective detection target portionsare exposed, and a distance Lbetween the cut position Pand the upstream end of the exposed area is shorter than a distance Lbetween a detection tip-endof the detection target portioncorresponding to any of the label portionsand the cut spotof the label portionadjacent to the said label portionon a paying-out tip-end side.

A sheet cartridge includes: a label sheet having plural label portions temporarily attached at a predetermined label pitch to a long backing sheet, and plural label position detection target portions provided at a detection target end portion that is one end in a direction of width of the backing sheet and configured to detect a print start position and a cutting position for the each label portion; and a cartridge case which accommodates the label sheet that is wound, in such a way that the label sheet can be reeled off, and in which a detection opening for exposing the each label position detection target portion for detection is formed.

A tape placement apparatus has a roll placement section in which a roll portion Ra of a tape roll is placed in a width direction, a feeding path on which a pulled-out portion Rb of the tape roll is set in the width direction and a set position regulation section that is provided in an outer surface side path formation section forming the feeding path and positionally regulates a width end at an upstream side in a set direction of the pulled-out portion set on the feeding path in the width direction.

Tape printing apparatus with set position regulation section

A tape feeding apparatus has a feeding roller that feeds a tape and a roller accommodation section that has a cylindrical accommodation section inner surface along with a roller outer circumferential surface of the feeding roller, accommodates the feeding roller having a gap with the roller outer circumferential surface, and has a roller opening aperture through which the accommodated feeding roller faces the tape. The feeding roller is rotatably supported at one end section side in a cantilever state and is opened at the other section side.

Tape feeding apparatus and tape printing apparatus

A medium feeder includes a first rotation body; a second rotation body which engages with the first rotation body while overlapping with the first rotation body, and disengages from the first rotation body in response to the presence of the feed target medium nipped between the first and second rotation bodies; a rotation body support member which supports the second rotation body, and is configured to be movable between an advancing position where the second rotation body engages with the first rotation body and a retreating position where the second rotation body disengages from the first rotation body; and a detection unit which detects migration of the rotation body support member to the retreating position.

Medium feeder and printer including the same

A tape placement apparatus in which a small roll of wound tape with an adhesive is placed in such a way that a tape can be unreeled freely from the small roll of tape, includes: a rotating table with which a tape end face of the small roll of tape makes contact after being positioned; and a table supporting section rotatably supporting the rotating table.

Tape placement apparatus and tape printer provided therewith

Label printer

Tape cartridge for a label printer

Provided herein is a feed drive device for a printer including: a feed roller that feeds a print medium in synchronization with drive of a print head; a motor constituting a driving source of the feed roller; a roller reduction gear train that transmits power from the motor to the feed roller; and a reverse rotation preventing mechanism that is incorporated in an input side of the roller reduction gear train and prevents reverse rotation of the feed roller; the reverse rotation preventing mechanism being operated by reverse rotational power of the feed roller reversely input to the roller reduction gear train to prevent reverse rotation of a first gear disposed in an input side of the roller reduction gear train.

Feed drive device for printer and printer

Provided herein is a tape processing apparatus having: a tape cutting device which slides a cutter holder having a cutter blade attached therein in a reciprocating sliding directions and cuts a tape by a forward sliding movement thereof; and a tape ejecting device which faces to a tape ejecting path from the tape cutting device to a tape ejecting slot and eject a tape piece of the tape forcibly from the tape ejecting slot by contacting in rotation with the cut tape piece; wherein the tape ejecting device having: an ejecting roller which contacts in rotation with the tape piece; and a power conversion mechanism which is placed between the ejecting roller and the cutter holder, converts a backward sliding movement of the cutter holder to a rotational movement for the ejecting roller, and transmits the rotational movement to the ejecting roller.

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Shimosuwa-machi, Japan

Kenichi Nakajima