Brother Kogyo Kabushiki-kaisha

Brother Kogyo Kabsuhiki Kaisha

Takeo Ito

Hisao Kurachi

Hiroshi Onoda

Masaharu Mori

Jun Itakura

Hideo Ueno

Satoru Moriyama

Kazuyoshi Minaminaka

Kiyoshi Yamakawa

Takayuki Iwase

Hitomi Hioki

Junji Shiota

There is provided a tape printing device capable of using long tape-like print media such as label tape having a plurality of label areas as targets of printing arranged on a long support tape along the length of the support tape and normal tape allowing printing at any position on a long tape-like image receiving medium, comprising judgment means for judging whether the print medium currently used is label tape or normal tape and feed cut control means for performing a feed cut operation of feeding the print medium and thereafter cutting the print medium. The feed cut control means includes feeding distance control means for controlling feeding distance before the cutting in the feed cut operation depending on the judgment by the judgment means.

Tape printing device and program

A tape printer includes a detection device that detects a type of tape in a tape cassette, a print data storage device that stores print data, a print head that performs printing on the tape based on the print data stored in the print data storage device, a recycle mark storage device that stores recycle mark data to be printed on the tape, wherein the recycle mark data can indicate whether the tape can be recycled, a composition device that composes, if the tape is detected by the detection device to be recyclable tape, the recycle mark data stored in the recycle mark storage device with the print data stored in the print data storage device, and a print control device that controls the print head so that the print head performs printing based on composite.

Tape printer, tape print storage medium, and tape cassette

A print image of a character string to be printed on a print tape, rotated counterclockwise from the lengthwise direction of the print tape by 90 degrees to be arranged in the width direction of the print tape, is generated (S). The print image is repetitively arranged sequentially in the lengthwise direction of the print tape (S) and thereby label printing is executed (S). Subsequently (S), a normal print image of the character string arranged in the lengthwise direction of the print tape is generated (S) and label printing of the normal print image is executed (S).

Width and lengthwise direction tape printing control device and program

Disclosed is a data entry keyboard which has a multitude of depressible keys which are selectively depressed for the entry of predetermined data. In the keyboard, an insulating member is sandwiched between a first substrate having stationary electrodes and a flexible second substrate having movable electrodes. The stationary and movable electrodes face one another through apertures formed in the insulating member. Upper and lower marginal surface portions of the insulating member, including the respective peripheral edges of the apertures, are kept parallel to the first and second substrates corresponding thereto by a plurality of protuberances on the substrates so that voids with a predetermined width are left between the marginal surface portions and the individual substrates. The movable electrodes of the second substrate are electrically fixed, in the form of a cantilever each, to the extreme end portions of branch conductor strips which diverge from a main conductor strip at right angles thereto. When one of the keys is depressed, the second substrate is deformed to narrow the corresponding void, thus bringing the corresponding movable and stationary electrodes into contact with each other.

Data entry keyboard

A ribbon driving mechanism for a typewriter, having a cam member provided on one side thereof with a first cam section for effecting control of a printing ribbon, and a second cam section extending continuously from the first cam section for effecting control of a correction tape, and a stopping member for controlling the movement of a cam follower along the cam sections. Either the printing ribbon or the correction tape is moved selectively to the printing position and only the rotation of a motor for driving the cam member in one particular direction, is transmitted to a printing ribbon winding mechanism, to wind the printing ribbon.

Ribbon driving mechanism for typewriter

The typewriter has a powered motor, an electric power switch, a drive shaft driven by the motor, a driven mechanism including printing and carriage return mechanisms connected to the drive shaft by way of respective clutches, and locking device for locking the clutches in their disconnect state. The locking device consist essentially of a cam portion on a manually operable member designed for turning on and off the switch, and a locking element actuated by the cam portion. When the manually operable member is actuated for turning off the switch, the clutches are locked in their disconnect state by the cam portion through the locking member. During cessation of the motor operation, these clutches may not be connected by faulty manipulation of the key or keys associated with the driven mechanism for reliably preventing incidental printing or carriage return movements upon restarting of the motor from occuring.

Power-operated typewriter

The typewriter has a drive mechanism including a vibrating mechanism and a feeding mechanism for a correction ribbon. The vibrating mechanism has a pair of ribbon vibrators, a cam follower provided to one of the vibrators, an eccentric cam designed to make one complete revolution for each printing operation in response to depression of associated key, and a spring member for resiliently biasing the cam follower toward the peripheral surface of the eccentric cam. The feeding mechanism has a pair of spindles for carrying ribbon spools, a ratchet wheel mounted on one of the spindles and a feed lever connected to the other vibrator. Upon depression of a correction key for setting the ribbon vibrators to be actuatable, followed by depression of an alphanumeric key, the ribbon vibrators are actuated by rotion of the eccentric cam so that the correction ribbon is raised from its inoperative position to its operative position. When the correction ribbon is lowered from its operative position to its inoperative position, the feed lever is actuated in timing with the return stroke of the ribbon vibrators for feeding the correction ribbon a predetermined length.

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Nagoya, Japan

Takeo Ito