Hitachi Koki Co., Ltd.

Nobuhiko Itoh

Masao Miyasaka

Shinichi Watahiki

Toshio Hiki

Masaaki Koseki

Hiroshi Nishimura

Nobuo Ihata

Akira Igarashi

Seiichi Saitou

Takanobu Agake

An actuator for actuating a print hammner includes a yoke made of a magnetic material, an electromagnetic coil mounted on the yoke, and an armature rotatably supported by bearings mounted on opposite sides of the yoke. Upon excitation of the electromagnetic coil, the armature is attracted to the yoke to drive the print hammer through a push rod. The yoke includes a plurality of laminated sheets of a magnetic material formed by stamping using a press. An insulating material and an adhesive are coated on the sheets.

Actuator for print hammer

A paper tension adjusting device in which one of the tractors with feeding pins changing feeding apertures in the paper is movable widthwise to adjust widthwise paper tension. The desired tension is determined from paper thickness which is in turn determined from the hammer flight time. Lengthwise tension is adjusted by adjusting paper clampers separated from the tractors. The tension is both widthwise and lengthwise directions is determined by optically sensing the positions of the feeding pin with respect to the aperture in which that pin is engaged.

Paper tension adjusting device and method for a printer

A sound reducing construction for shielding sound in a confined box, the box including a first plate component formed with a first open end portion and a second plate component formed with a second open end portion and accommodating therein a machine which generates the sound, the first plate component being movable with respect to the second plate component. The sound reducing construction comprises: a packing unit having one end fixed to the first open end portion of the first component and having another end portion in contact with the second open end portion when the first component is rested on the second component; and, the first and second open end portions providing stepped portions in conformance with each other. The first and second open end portions define two horizontally extending gaps whose vertical heights are different from each other and a vertically extending gap. The packing unit is positioned in one of the horizontally extending gap. The first and second component are cover and a main box which houses a printer therein.

Soundproof construction in printer box

In a control device for an impact printer for performing a printing operation at a first printing speed, a temperature sensing element, provided such that the temperature of an electromagnet unit can be directly or indirectly detected, is operated at a first temperature and restored at a second temperature lower than the first temperature. A controller changes the printing speed to a second printing speed lower than the first printing speed when the temperature sensing element is operated, returns the printing speed to the first printing speed when the element is restored, and changes the operating speed to a third printing speed lower than the second printing speed when the element is operated for a predetermined period of time, whereby the printer is made high in reliability.

Impact printer temperature control device

A cooled print hammer assembly in which a plurality of hammer coils are formed in a resin member having a recess in which is placed a cooling fin. The opened faces of the fins are placed adjacent a plate of the frame of the print hammer assembly so that closed forced-air ducts are defined by the fins and the frame plate. Additionally, partitions may be placed on the sides of the fins so that the external sides of the fins are cooled.

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Ibaraki, Japan

Nobuhiko Itoh