Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha

Tokyo Electric Co.

Yozo Kobayashi

Toshiyuki Tamura

Mitsuo Uchimura

Hisao Suzuki

Hiroyuki Koyama

Takayuki Hiyoshi

Ryohei Miyoshi

Kengo Tsuchida

Norihito Mochizuki

Shinichi Mizushima

A thermal printer unit according to the invention includes a thermal head, a platen roller which is disposed while facing the thermal head, a support member which fixes the thermal head while thermal transfer ribbon and receptor paper are pressurized and nipped between the thermal head and the platen roller, a conveyance mechanism which conveys the thermal transfer ribbon and the receptor paper using the thermal head and the platen roller, an engaging groove which prevents the thermal head from moving in a paper conveyance direction by the support member, and a retaining portion which prevents the thermal head from moving in a rotating direction, the movement of the thermal head in the rotating direction being generated according to rotation of the platen roller.

Thermal printer unit

A consumable for use in a printer has a consumable section (for example, paper or ink ribbon) which is consumed during printing operation of the printer, and an RFID tag that stores the specification data of the consumable section. The printer has a printing section and a wireless receiver for data communication with the RFID tag. The printing section is controlled according to data obtained from the RFID tag through data communication.

Printer and consumables for use in printer

A scratch card printer has a conveying section to convey a card, for example, by a plurality of conveying roller pairs, a first printing mechanism to have a thermal head, printing control means to control a printing head of the first printing mechanism to allow information, to be printed on a card, a second printing mechanism configured to have a thermal head located more on a downstream side in a direction of conveying of the card by the conveying section than the first printing mechanism, and a thermal transfer control section which, in order to cover the information printed by the first printing mechanism, controls the thermal head of the second printing mechanism to allow an ink to be transferred to the card from a thermal transfer ribbon for concealment.

Scratch card printer and method of printing information on a scratch card

A thermal print head comprising a sequential laminated arrangement of an insulating substrate, a heating resistance layer, an electrode layer formed in a predetermined pattern, and a protective layer. The protective layer is formed of a mixture of Al.sub.2 O.sub.3 as a principal component, and SiO.sub.2. The protective layer has satisfactory heat resistance, abrasion resistance, crack resistance, moisture resistance and chemical stability.

Thermal print head

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Fuji, Japan

Yozo Kobayashi