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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 29, 2000
Filed:
Feb. 10, 1998
Tsuneo Yasui, Nagoya, JP;
Kazuhiko Matsuda, Kounan, JP;
Hakudai Kondo, Nagoya, JP;
Masashi Suzuki, Nagoya, JP;
Akira Sago, Seto, JP;
Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Nagoya, JP;
Abstract
A printer is provided with: a heating device for heating a solid ink to dissolve the solid ink into a liquefied ink while an alternative current is supplied thereto; a recording device, on which the heating device is provided, for recording record information onto a record sheet by use of the liquefied ink; and a moving device for moving the recording device. An information recording method is provided with the processes of: moving the recording device by the moving device to an ink dissolving position where a moving terminal, which is fixed on the recording device and is electrically connected to the heating device, and a fixed terminal, which is fixed on a frame member of the printer and is electrically connected to an alternative current source, are contacted with each other, only when the solid ink is to be dissolved in the recording device; supplying the alternative current from the alternative current source to the heating device through the fixed terminal and the moving terminal contacted with each other; moving the recording device in a main scan direction of the record sheet by the moving device after the solid ink is dissolved by the heating device; and recording the record information by use of the dissolved ink onto the record sheet by the recording device while the recording device is moved in the main scan direction by the moving device.