Star Micronics Company Limited

Yoshikazu Nishizawa

Masamitsu Ozawa

Masanari Nakamura

Kenji Suzuki

A visible display card has a printing layer provided at least one side of the card, and an IC disposed by the side of the printing layer and having an external terminal. The printing layer forms printed images therein when heated, and the height of the printing layer is greater than that of the external terminal.

Visible display card and processing system

Disclosed is a processing apparatus for a rewritable card having a printing layer made of a heat-reversible recording material on which erasing/printing processes of images are repeatedly performed while traveling the card in a processing direction. The apparatus comprises an erasing/printing device for performing erasing/printing processes with respect to the printing layer; a heating device for performing heating process with respect to the printing layer; a temperature measuring device for measuring at least one of the temperature of the rewritable card and the ambient temperature in erasing/printing processes; and a control device for controlling the erasing/printing processes by the erasing/printing device and the heating process by the heating device according to the temperature measured by the temperature measuring device. The control device controls the erasing device to perform only one erasing process when the measured temperature is a reference temperature or more, and controls the heating device to perform the heating process prior to the erasing process when the measured temperature is lower than the reference temperature.

Processing method for rewritable card and processing apparatus for the

A printer having a function of reading a bar code attached on a printing paper. A carrier cover of a sensor carrier unit is disposed against the bar-coded surface of the printing paper as located in the printing position by a positioning means, and the printing paper is supported on its rear surface by a guide member, whereupon the sensor carrier unit is moved in the direction of reading the bar code. Therefore, the distance between the bar code and the sensor is normally kept constant so that the printing paper is effectively prevented from being displaced during reading.

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Shizuoka, Japan

Yoshikazu Nishizawa