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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 19, 1996
Filed:
Sep. 01, 1993
Applicant:
Inventors:
Akio Yamashita, Takizawa, JP;
Kazutaka Suzuki, Tamayama, JP;
Toshiaki Amano, Morioka, JP;
Kazuhiko Hatakeyama, Morioka, JP;
Assignee:
Alps Electric Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
347214 ; 400208 ;
Abstract
The present invention relates to a label creation cassette capable of creating a label when mounted on a thermal printer used as an output unit for personal computers and wordprocessors. A cassette case 1 with a substantially rectangular surface includes substantially cylindrical cores 2a, 2b, 2c each rotatably supported therein. An image transfer tape 3 is wound around the core 2a of these three cores. Further, a thermal transfer ink ribbon 4 is wound around one of the remaining two cores or the core 2b and the other core 2c is used to wind the ink ribbon 4.