Seiko Instruments Inc

Yohei Ishidoya

Koki Yoshida

Daisuke Yoshida

Yuichi Yoshigi

Yoshio Kitamura

Hiroaki Kondo

Shohei Nomura

Soshiro Aoki

A portable terminal has a thermal head. The portable terminal includes a first sensor unit configured to detect presence or absence of a sheet, a second sensor unit configured to detect information related to a mark provided on the sheet, and a sheet determination unit configured to determine a kind of the sheet. The sheet determination unit is configured to determine a kind of the sheet based on a result of detecting information related to the mark with use of the second sensor unit after the sheet is conveyed in a reverse direction with respect to a direction of discharging the sheet.

Portable terminal, printing control method, and program

A printer includes: a first connector to be used to input electric power supplied from an outside; a second connector to which a communication terminal is to be connected, and which is to be used to output at least a part of the electric power to the connected communication terminal; a printing control unit configured to control operation of a printing unit configured to perform printing on recording paper; and an adjustment unit configured to adjust a maximum amount of the electric power to be output from the second connector, of the electric power supplied from the outside, to a first amount of power when the printing unit is not under a printing operation, and adjust the maximum amount of the electric power to be output from the second connector to a second amount of power when the printing unit is under the printing operation, the second amount of power being smaller than the first amount of power.

Printer and power control program

A thermal head control device includes: a printing rate calculation range determination unit configured to determine, as a printing rate calculation range, a range from a left-end energization dot to a right-end energization dot among energization dots present in printing data corresponding to heating elements to be controlled among a plurality of heating elements included in a thermal head; a printing rate calculation unit configured to calculate a printing rate of the printing rate calculation range determined by the printing rate calculation range determination unit; an energizing time calculation unit configured to calculate an energizing time for which a current is caused to flow through the heating elements based on the printing rate calculated by the printing rate calculation unit; and an output unit configured to output a control signal for driving the heating elements to be controlled of the thermal head, based on the calculated energizing time.

Thermal head control device, thermal printer, and thermal head control method

A control device comprises: a movement control unit configured to control movement of an object; a detecting unit configured to optically detect, at a specific position, the object moving through control by the movement control unit, to thereby output a detection voltage; and a movement amount determining unit configured to determine a movement amount of the object to be moved through the control by the movement control unit, based on a tendency of a change in the detection voltage when the object is moved.

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Chiba, Japan

Yohei Ishidoya