Brother Kogyo Kabushiki-Kaisha

Yusuke Imamura

Yasuhiro Iriyama

Yuichiro Suzuki

Tetsuya Ishiyama

Takuji Sakabe

An information input device has a determination portion, a detection portion, and a switching portion. The detection portion includes two areas that plural coils are arranged along a plane. The two areas switch between a folded state facing the areas each other and a two-page spread state not facing the areas each other. When an induced current is not detected in the coils of the two areas in the continuous reception state in which the induced current of the coils can be detected, the determination portion determines that the detection portion is in the two-page spread state. When the induced current is detected in the coils of the two areas in the continuous reception state, the determination portion determines that the detection portion is in the folded state, and the switching portion switches the state of the detection portion from a normal state to a power saving state.

Information input device

This disclosure discloses a label producing apparatus comprising: a housing; a feeding device that feeds a label tape; a printing device that prints desired print; an optical sensor comprising a light projecting device and a light receiving device capable of outputting a detected voltage value; a light-on control portion that controls said optical sensor so that said light projecting device is turned on; an initial value storage device that stores a predetermined initial threshold value; a threshold value correction portion that calculates a corrected threshold value using said initial threshold value; a mark detecting portion that detects a positioning mark by an arrival of said detected voltage value at said corrected threshold value after calculation of said corrected threshold value; a feeding control portion that controls said feeding device; and a print control portion that controls a print operation of said printing device.

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Nagoya, Japan

Yusuke Imamura