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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 31, 2004
Filed:
Jun. 26, 2003
Yoshinori Sato, Chiba, JP;
Shinichi Yoshida, Chiba, JP;
Minoru Hoshino, Chiba, JP;
Norimitsu Sambongi, Chiba, JP;
SII P & S Inc., Chiba, JP;
Abstract
Providing a thermal head capable of preventing the adherence of a thermally active component, a thermal activation device for thermally active sheet employing the thermal head, and a printer assembly employing the thermal activation device. A thermal head has an arrangement wherein a heat storage layer (glaze layer ) is formed on a heat releasing substrate (ceramic substrate ), wherein plural heat generating resistances ( ) and electrodes ( ) for power supply to the individual heat generating resistances are formed on the heat storage layer thereby forming an array of heat generating elements, and wherein a protective layer ( ) covers the top surfaces of these parts; and applies thermal activation energy to a print medium (heat-sensitive self-adhesive label R) including a thermally active component by supplying power to the heat-generating element array, the thermal head provided with two substantially parallel lines of anti-adherence layers against thermally-active-component ( ) on the protective layer in a manner to sandwich a protective layer portion directly above the heat-generating element array.