Shinko Electric Company, Ltd.

Shintaro Okamoto

Hayami Sugiyama

Haruki Takeuchi

Toshiki Nakamura

Hideki Maeda

Kawabe Morio

This printer performs a heating process via a thermal head on TA paper provided with color forming layers and fixes the heat processed TA paper via a fixing lamp The fixing lamp is formed from: a fluorescent tube that has a fluorescent coating applied to the inside surface of the glass tube and inside which are sealed mercury and noble gases; filament electrodes provided at both ends of the fluorescent tube; a hot cathode fluorescent lamp formed from lead wires that supply power to the filament electrodes; and a magnetic circuit that is provided on a side surface of the fluorescent tube and that generates a magnetic field that acts on the current that flows through the fluorescent tube when power is fed to the filament electrodes.

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Ise, Japan

Shintaro Okamoto