EP0586265A1 - Aufzeichnungsvorrichtung für die Arbeitsgänge eines Wärmeübertragungsdruckers - Google Patents

Aufzeichnungsvorrichtung für die Arbeitsgänge eines Wärmeübertragungsdruckers Download PDF

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EP0586265A1
EP0586265A1 EP93401527A EP93401527A EP0586265A1 EP 0586265 A1 EP0586265 A1 EP 0586265A1 EP 93401527 A EP93401527 A EP 93401527A EP 93401527 A EP93401527 A EP 93401527A EP 0586265 A1 EP0586265 A1 EP 0586265A1
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Bernard Patry
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Axiohm SA
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41J—TYPEWRITERS; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS, i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS
    • B41J2/00—Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms characterised by the printing or marking process for which they are designed
    • B41J2/315—Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms characterised by the printing or marking process for which they are designed characterised by selective application of heat to a heat sensitive printing or impression-transfer material
    • B41J2/32—Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms characterised by the printing or marking process for which they are designed characterised by selective application of heat to a heat sensitive printing or impression-transfer material using thermal heads
    • B41J2/325—Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms characterised by the printing or marking process for which they are designed characterised by selective application of heat to a heat sensitive printing or impression-transfer material using thermal heads by selective transfer of ink from ink carrier, e.g. from ink ribbon or sheet
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07G—REGISTERING THE RECEIPT OF CASH, VALUABLES, OR TOKENS
    • G07G5/00—Receipt-giving machines

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  • the present invention relates to a device for recording the prints produced by a thermal printer operating by ink transfer on a print medium.
  • the recording of the prints produced by a print head is commonly practiced in the field of cash registers.
  • needle printers for editing tickets we proceed to the simultaneous printing of a double ribbon, the impact on the first ribbon generating a mark on the second which is wound and stored to constitute the memory or log of all transactions made by the machine.
  • the problem is posed differently because there is no impact by which marks can be produced on a secondary support.
  • the first support is for example a thin thermal paper which allows a transfer of heat towards a second thermally sensitive paper.
  • the first paper is thermally sensitive on its upper face and forms a transfer film by its lower face to transfer ink onto normal paper which forms the second printing medium.
  • thermal printing which uses an ink transfer technique from a film carrying ink on a support (for example plain paper), does not allow the publication of a operations by doubling the print head to make two identical simultaneous prints.
  • This technique apart from the fact that it entails high costs, does not definitely fulfill the exact memory function of printer operations. Indeed one of the heads may not work identically to the other and the result may be two different impressions.
  • the invention intends to offer a simpler solution to the constitution of an operations log of a thermal printer by transfer.
  • its first object is a device for recording the impressions produced by a thermal transfer printer which consists of the film carrying the ink transferred after it has passed under the heating points of the print head and by a drum for winding this film comprising means for its coupling to a motor member synchronized with the motor member driving the support to be printed.
  • the winding drum consists of the winding drum of the ink-carrying film from another drum where it is previously wound, two drums being contained in a cassette case.
  • This cassette increases the ease of placing the support film in the printer, of extracting it once used and especially of its reuse to allow it to be read again in a device designed for this purpose.
  • each of the drums of the cassette is equipped with a means for its coupling to a drive motor member.
  • an element of the housing will advantageously be equipped with an electronic "chip" by means of which, when it is placed in the machine and during its use, it is possible to '' enter a certain number of information allowing for example to identify the machine, the operator or the successive operators, to record information relating to the hours of use ...
  • This electronic component can also contain instructions of a program for commissioning certain parts of the machine, in particular the printer, and thus prohibiting its operation with cassettes of different origin from that provided by the printer manufacturer.
  • a second object of the invention which consists of a simple device comprising in a frame motor means comprising coupling members complementary to the means coupling carried by each of the cassette drums and reading means located to the right of a cassette window when the latter is housed in the frame.
  • the device for reading and checking the content of the cassette it will be advantageous for the device for reading and checking the content of the cassette to include the contacts necessary for reading and more generally for dialogue with the memory that this chip contains for complete the proofreading operation by correlating it with other information relating for example to the conditions of use.
  • FIG 1 there is shown in a partial sectional view the essential mechanical elements of a thermal printer.
  • a print head 1 in the form of a plate carrying in a known manner a line of heating points, the plate being kept applied by an elastic member 2 against a roller 3 said capstan.
  • the contact line between insert and capstan is precisely the line of heating points.
  • it passes between the wafer 1 and the capstan 3, a printing paper 4 from a roll 5 and a transfer film 6 from a roll 7 and collected by a drum 8.
  • the transfer film 6 is a support for a fusible ink such that, under the effect of the heat delivered by each point, the ink carried by the film 6 on its face which is in contact with the paper 4 is transferred to this paper where it adheres while it is detached from the film 6.
  • the printing device generally comprises a device 13 for cutting the paper ribbon 4 into sections to form tickets.
  • This device also includes, in a known manner, a rotary blade 14 and a fixed counterblade 15 between which the paper 4 passes behind the capstan 2.
  • This figure shows neither the paper guide members 4 between the capstan and the cutting device nor the drive members of the rotary blade cutting 14 which are controlled by the capstan drive.
  • the print head shown in FIG. 1 is in two parts which are movable with respect to each other between a position in which the members cooperate with each other as shown and another position in which the print head is open so that the support paper 4 and the film 7 which are the consumable products of the device can be inserted and extracted.
  • a first frame which carries the plate 1, the spring 2, the motor 12 with the drive gear 9, 10, 12.
  • This first frame comprises means not shown for receiving a second frame which carries the roll 5 of paper 4, the roll 7 of transfer film 6, the drum 8 for rewinding, the capstan 3 and the device 13.
  • the cutting device 13 has its own driving device which is carried by the second frame and whose synchronism of operation with that of the capstan is ensured electronically.
  • the drum 8 for rewinding the transfer film which can be associated with the second frame in a removable manner in order to be able to recover the used transfer film, comprises a toothed wheel 16 which can mesh with a train gear reducer 17, 18, 19 coupled to the output axis 20 of a motor 21, the reducer and the motor being carried by the first frame.
  • the drum 8 therefore constitutes the means of storing the film which has been used. Its drive is provided in synchronism with the movement of the capstan 3 so that there is no sliding of the transfer ribbon 6 relative to the paper 4. More specifically, the motor 21 is a motor coupled to the drum 8 by sliding. It ensures the tension of the transfer film, its driving under the head being ensured by friction by the paper 4 itself driven by the capstan 3.
  • the film 4 extends between a reel 7 and a rewinding drum 8 operating in synchronization with that of driving the capstan.
  • the preferred embodiment of the invention is a cassette 22 which contains the transfer film.
  • This cassette is shown in Figures 2 and 3. It essentially comprises a housing 23 in two closed parts 24 and 25 which respectively contain the roll 7 of blank film 6 and the drum 8. These two parts 24 and 25 are connected by two arms 26 and 27, which delimit between them a window 28 through which the film 6 is accessible. It is through this window that the film 6 is placed in the print head.
  • the roller 7 is mounted on a shaft 29 which has outside the housing 24 a coupling member (for example a drive square 30).
  • the drum 8 is also equipped, outside the part 25, with the toothed wheel 16 which can cooperate with any drive device ending in a conjugate toothed wheel and in particular the toothed wheel 17 associated with the motor 21.
  • the cassette 22 once fully used is removed from the printer.
  • the roller 7 can be reconstituted by rewinding by acting on the drive square 30.
  • the film 6 can then be examined by scrolling it by means of a drive by the pinion 16 (manual or motorized).
  • the examination consists in reading the negative of the impressions on the film either by simple visual inspection or by an optical reader.
  • a support 31 for a contrast surface for example white
  • This support 31 can be placed directly on the cassette between the arms 26 and 27 which for this purpose comprise means for its snap-fastening. It can also belong to a device for verifying the printing operations carried out by a thermal printer, which consists in carrying out the examination of each used cassette 22 forming the log of these operations.
  • This device is schematically illustrated in FIG. 4. It comprises a frame 32 for receiving the cassette (with non-illustrated coding members for example) which carries motor means 33 and 34 which can be automatically coupled to the drive elements 16 and 30 from the cassette.
  • the control of these means allows the film 4 to be wound and unwound for its passage in one or the other of the two directions in the window 28.
  • This frame 32 is also equipped with the contrast surface 31 and can be closed by an optical reader 35 for examining the journal that constitutes the film 6.
  • the optical reader 35 can be a scanner equipped with a light source and a bar of CCD cells allowing the digitization of the information read by reflection on the surface 31 of the light having passed through the transparent areas of the film 6.
  • This reader can be connected to a processing unit (shape recognition, etc.) allowing operation of the operations log.
  • the surface 31 and the scanning reader is placed under the film 6, the member 35 being simply replaced by an illumination device.
  • FIGS. 2, 3 and 4 the presence of an electronic component 40 on one of the walls of the housing 23, for example the arm 26.
  • This component or “chip” comprises in known manner a memory which is only readable or electrically programmable, or even electrically programmable and erasable as well as connection elements accessible from the outside for its connection to supply and information exchange conductors (addresses, data, etc.).
  • the printer and the device for reading and checking the cassette have means on standby to make the connection and the logical dialogue with the electronic component. Is illustrated on the frame 32 of the device of Figure 4 the conductors 41 which connect these means waiting inside the frame 32 to a processing unit not shown.
  • the memory may contain program instructions which are necessary, for example, for commissioning the printer.
  • the printer management microprocessor may in fact have to go and interrogate certain addresses of the memory carried by the cassette in order to execute the program for commissioning the printer each time the cassette is changed. So the manufacturer of the printer and cassettes can protect himself against counterfeiting or a copy of its material, dedicating the cassettes to the printer of its manufacture or of an authorized manufacture.

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EP93401527A 1992-06-24 1993-06-15 Aufzeichnungsvorrichtung für die Arbeitsgänge eines Wärmeübertragungsdruckers Withdrawn EP0586265A1 (de)

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FR9207726 1992-06-24
FR9207726A FR2692838B1 (fr) 1992-06-24 1992-06-24 Dispositif d'enregistrement des opérations d'une imprimante thermique à transfert.
FR9304683A FR2704181B1 (fr) 1993-04-21 1993-04-21 Dispositif d'enregistrement des operations d'une imprimante thermique a transfert.
FR9304683 1993-04-21

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