Brother Kogyo Kabushiki-kaisha

Toshio Takahashi

Tsuyoshi Ohashi

Kazunari Taki

Takuya Nagai

Yasunori Nakamura

Kunihiro Yasui

Kenji Sakakibara

Shigeyuki Hayashi

Michitoshi Akao

Osamu Nagata

Toshio Nakai

Koshiro Yamaguchi

Tsuyoshi Nagae

Mitsugi Tanaka

Hiroshi Hattori

Kiyoichi Ohta

Yasunori Kitazawa

Hidetoshi Asada

A first roll is provided, which is formed by winding a base tape having a tape-state base film in which a plurality of RFID circuit elements are disposed with a predetermined interval in the lengthwise direction, an adhesive layer with a predetermined width for affixing the RFID circuit element to a target to be affixed, disposed on one face of the base film, and a separation sheet with a width larger than that of the adhesive layer and disposed so as to extend in the lengthwise direction of the adhesive layer around a reel axis approximately perpendicular to the lengthwise direction.

Roll of tape with RFID tag, tag tape, and cartridge for including at least a RFID tag

A method for producing a RFID label comprises conveying a first label base material which is transparent from a first holding portion holding the first label base material, forming an image on a surface of the first label base material, conveying a second label base material including at least one of a RFID antenna conductor and an IC chip from a second holding portion holding the second label base material and joining the second label base material and the first label base material on which an image has been formed together, wherein, when an image is formed on the first label base material, the image is formed on a surface of the first label base material, the surface being joined to the second label base material.

RFID label, method for producing the RFID label, device for producing the RFID label, sheet member (tag sheet) used for the RFID label, and cartridge attached to the device for producing the RFID label

It is intended to provide a tape producing apparatus capable of printing on an appropriate printing medium with high quality based on data directly read from marks which are continuously printed on a release paper to show a type of a printing medium, with non-contact tape type identification devices. The tape producing apparatus comprises non-contact tape type discrimination sensors. Each label tape includes the adhesive and the release paper for protecting the adhesive. The release paper is provided with only one of the tape type identification marks which are printed continuously to show the types of the materials to produce the label tape. The non-contact tape type discrimination sensors read the tape type identification marks which are printed continuously to show the types of the materials to produce the label tape.

Tape producing apparatus

A tape cassette has a printing tape which can be cut completely by a cutting blade and can improve the quality of subsequent printing onto a cloth. The input characters and symbols are printed on a hot-melting type adhesive layer of the printing tape by energizing a thermal head and generating heat from the heat-generating element. The hot-melting type adhesive layer of the printing tape is overlapped with a protection sheet by the driving roller and a tape feeding roller and the printing tape, overlapped with the protection sheet, is fed out of the printing device and cut.

Tape cassette with image receiving member and protection sheet

A printer having a print head adapted to be pressed against or released from a print paper mounted on a platen, wherein a print operation or an erase operation is performed by moving the print head in press contact with the print paper through an ink ribbon. The improvement comprises control means for relasing the print head from the print paper after a predetermined amount of printing or erasing is successively performed with the print head being held in press contact with the print paper, thus preventing defective winding and meandering of the ink ribbon.

Printer with print head releasable after predetermined amount of

A printer, including a first and a second feed mechanism supported by a carriage for feeding a print ribbon and an erase ribbon, respectively, at least one rotatable shaft supported by the reciprocating carriage rotatably in opposite directions, a one-way clutch for transmitting the shaft rotation in one of the opposite directions to the first feed mechanism, and inhibiting transmission of the rotation in the other direction, and a control mechanism for inhibiting transmission of the shaft rotation to the second feed mechanism when the printer is in a printing mode, and transmitting the shaft rotation to the second ribbon mechanism when the printer is in a correction mode, whereby the carriage reciprocation activates the first and second feed mechanisms. A converter may be provided for converting the shaft rotation into movements of a ribbon lift to shift the erase ribbon between an erasing and an inoperative position. The rotation control mechanism inhibits transmission of the shaft rotation to the converter while in the printing mode, but transmits the rotation to the converter while in the correction mode. Thus, the carriage reciprocation also cause the shifting movements of the erase ribbon.

Printing apparatus with carriage drive utilized to feed print and erase

In a printing device according to the present invention, a housing assembly comprises a pair of housings which are rockably supported, with their respective open end portions abutting against each other. A platen is disposed in an abutment region where the open end portions abut. A keyboard is provided on the one housing, while a printing element is disposed inside the other housing. When the printing device is in a nonusable position, the two housings extend along one plane, thus defining a flat, rectangular outline of the housing assembly. When the device is in a usable position, the housings are rocked relatively, thus defining a substantially L-shaped outline of the housing assembly. As the housings rock in this manner, the printing element is brought to a printing position, where the element faces the platen.

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Nagoya, Japan

Toshio Takahashi