Star Micronics Company Limited

Masanari Nakamura

Masamitsu Ozawa

Yoshikazu Nishizawa

Susumu Shoji

Yasunori Tsukuda

Hisanobu Inada

Katsuhiko Gotoda

Katsuya Shiba

Hirokazu Nakayama

A visible display card has a printing layer provided at least one side of the card, and an IC disposed by the side of the printing layer and having an external terminal. The printing layer forms printed images therein when heated, and the height of the printing layer is greater than that of the external terminal.

Visible display card and processing system

An electrophoretic printing method comprises layering a back electrode and a dispersion system containing electrophoretic particles on a printing substrate to form a printing layer; and providing a printing head separately from the printing substrate. The printing head has a front electrode which is a counterpart of the back electrode and which has a predetermined printing pattern. The front electrode is brought into contact with the printing layer formed on the printing substrate to oppose the back electrode. Voltage is applied between the front electrode and the back electrode so as to change a distribution of the electrophoretic particles according to the polarity of the voltage and to form a desired image on the dispersion system.

Electrophoretic printing method and electrophoretic printer

Disclosed is a processing apparatus for a rewritable card having a printing layer made of a heat-reversible recording material on which erasing/printing processes of images are repeatedly performed while traveling the card in a processing direction. The apparatus comprises an erasing/printing device for performing erasing/printing processes with respect to the printing layer; a heating device for performing heating process with respect to the printing layer; a temperature measuring device for measuring at least one of the temperature of the rewritable card and the ambient temperature in erasing/printing processes; and a control device for controlling the erasing/printing processes by the erasing/printing device and the heating process by the heating device according to the temperature measured by the temperature measuring device. The control device controls the erasing device to perform only one erasing process when the measured temperature is a reference temperature or more, and controls the heating device to perform the heating process prior to the erasing process when the measured temperature is lower than the reference temperature.

Processing method for rewritable card and processing apparatus for the

To attach or detach a process cartridge to or from a support member of an LED printer, an upper housing is angularly displaced and opened around a supporting position relative to a lower housing. As the upper housing is gradually opening relatively to the lower housing, the support member is angularly displaced around a connection position with the lower housing to be separated from the upper housing. Then, a used process cartridge can be detached from the support member and another new process cartridge can be attached thereto, thereby allowing such maintenance operation to be easily performed.

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Shizuoka, Japan

Masanari Nakamura