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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 29, 2002
Filed:
Mar. 30, 2000
Bunji Moriya, Tokyo, JP;
TDK Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The object of the invention is to enable the input of the data of a high energy part and the data of a low energy part to one memory in a thermal head having heating means for heating by different energy. To achieve the object, in a thermal head provided with a shift register to which first energy print data the printing by first energy of which is controlled by heating control means is written and to which second energy print data the printing by second energy of which is controlled by the heating control means is written, the shift register is provided with first shift register elements to which first energy print data is written and second shift register elements to which second energy print data is written, and the first shift register elements and the second shift register elements are connected in series.