EP1295727B1 - Thermische Druckvorrichtung zum Öffnen und Verriegeln - Google Patents

Thermische Druckvorrichtung zum Öffnen und Verriegeln Download PDF

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EP1295727B1
EP1295727B1 EP02292082A EP02292082A EP1295727B1 EP 1295727 B1 EP1295727 B1 EP 1295727B1 EP 02292082 A EP02292082 A EP 02292082A EP 02292082 A EP02292082 A EP 02292082A EP 1295727 B1 EP1295727 B1 EP 1295727B1
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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
    • B41J11/00—Devices or arrangements  of selective printing mechanisms, e.g. ink-jet printers or thermal printers, for supporting or handling copy material in sheet or web form
    • B41J11/20—Platen adjustments for varying the strength of impression, for a varying number of papers, for wear or for alignment, or for print gap adjustment
    • 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
    • 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
    • B41J29/00—Details of, or accessories for, typewriters or selective printing mechanisms not otherwise provided for
    • B41J29/02—Framework

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  • thermal printing devices are generally used for sections of a strip of paper, one side of which is sensitive to heat.
  • Each printed section forming a label or receipt is drawn from a blank roll of paper which is generally housed in a compartment of the apparatus. Access to this compartment for loading the roll is made through an opening closed by a movable wall which carries part of the printer, most often the support roll (and drive) of the paper under the print head, so that the loading and in particular the placement of the primer roll in the printer is facilitated.
  • a print head in the form of a ceramic plate with a line of heating points
  • a spring tending to create a return torque of the wafer around its pivot axis in the direction of the support roller (sometimes called capstan).
  • This restoring torque ensures, on the one hand, the possible erasure of the head when opening and closing the lid that carries it, and on the other hand the locking of this lid in its closed state, the plate pressing on the capstan forming an elastic restraint of the latter, so the lid to which it is attached.
  • the remedy for this drawback is provided by the present invention in that it makes it possible to ensure in a simple and inexpensive way a better relative position between the capstan and the print head, at the moment of printing, and thus of 'improve the quality of it all along the line of heating points.
  • the invention therefore relates to a thermal printing device comprising a fixed frame with a print head provided with a line of heating points and a frame movable relative to the fixed frame, carrying by the ends of an axis a support roll of the paper ribbon between a first position in which the roller is in contact by one of its generators with the line of heated points of the head and a second position in which the roller and the head are distant one of the other.
  • the print head is fixed on the fixed frame and the device comprises a mechanism for maintaining the application of the roll against the line of heating spots, in the first relative position of the frames, comprising a receiving hook of each end of the axis of the roller, slidably mounted on the fixed frame in a direction perpendicular to the line of heating points and subjected to the effect of an elastic return member directed towards the print head.
  • the roller capstan
  • the roller is pressed against the line of points by hooks independent of each other at each end of its axis, it ensures a correct and balanced application of this roller against the line of heating points unlike to known devices in which the pressure exerted by the head on the roll forces the roller into holding bearings which define the orientation of the roller independently of the orientation of the head.
  • the articulation of the cover to the fixed frame is performed with clearance which allows the hooks to compensate for the false parallelism between the line of points and the hinge of the lid.
  • each end of the axis of the roll is carried by the movable frame in a light substantially parallel to the direction of the sliding of the hook when the mobile frame is in its first position aforesaid.
  • the print head comprises a ceramic plate associated with a metal radiator
  • the fixed frame is formed by the radiator disposed as a spacer between two brackets each with a guide bracket. sliding for a hook, substantially perpendicular to the radiator.
  • This simple construction makes it possible to provide a minimum number of identical pieces to cover a whole range of different printing devices. by the width of the ribbon of paper to be printed.
  • FIG. 1 In Figure 1 are shown the main components of a thermal printer according to the invention. It is firstly a chassis 1 equipped with a print head 2 and a pair of hooks 3 and 4.
  • the frame 1 is intended to be fixed to a general frame 5 which is the structure to which is also reported a geared motor unit 6 and an element 7 belonging to a device for cutting the printed sections of the paper.
  • the printer also comprises a frame 8 which rotates a roll 9 support and drive the paper to be printed.
  • This roller is secured to a not shown axis in the figure and fitted at one of its ends, in known manner, a gear wheel 9 has for its driving by the gear motor 6 group.
  • these devices are intended to be integrated in a more complete structure which defines in particular a housing for a heat-sensitive paper roll, an outer cowling to constitute either a portable apparatus for integrated circuit card transactions, or a means for of rescue a receipt, a statement, a label associated for example with a terminal of payment, a distributor of banknotes or with any transaction.
  • This structure generally comprises a closing wall of the access to the housing compartment of the roll of paper to be printed, which wall is movable relative to the rest of the structure and which carries the frame 8, henceforth called a moving frame.
  • the rest of the structure integrates the frame 5 with the frame 1 which is therefore the fixed frame.
  • the arrow A of the drawing of FIG. 1 represents the possible path of distance and of approaching the two frames, the wall carrying the frame 8 being for example a hinged lid on the rest of the structure around an axis not shown parallel to the print head 2.
  • the frame 1 is constituted by the metal radiator 20 of the print head 2 on which is, in known manner, a ceramic plate 21 equipped with a line of heating points 22 and electrical conductors and electronic control components and two brackets 10 and 11 attached to the radiator 20 by appropriate means 12 and 13 (solder, screw ).
  • Each bracket 10, 11 includes a tab 10, 11a for fixing the back of the radiator 20 and a cross member 10 b, 11b perpendicular to the radiator and separated from the corresponding end of the latter by a space in which is housed the hook 3, 4 corresponding.
  • Each hook as shown in Figures 2 and 3 is formed by a plate 30, 40 cut, of thickness substantially equal to the aforesaid space and having, behind the radiator 20 and overhanging thereof, a housing 31, 41 Between the bottom of the housing and open on the radiator side, a spring 33, 43 is housed whose effect tends to recall each hook to the rear of the radiator.
  • Each plate 30, 40 has a slot 34, 44 into which a finger 23, 24 integral with the radiator 20 at its end facing each crossbar 10b , 11b . The fingers and lights limit the sliding of the hooks. Their guiding along the crosspieces 10b , 11b of the brackets is formed by flanges 14, 15 forming slides.
  • each plate 30, 40 located at the front of the print head 2 is cut in the form of a hook with an opening 35, 45 defining a free end or nose 36, 46 (see Figure 3 for the hook 4) .
  • An outer surface 47 of the spout 46 and inclined with respect to the direction of sliding of the hook forms an input cam for a bearing 90 surrounding the end 91 of the capstan axis 9.
  • An inner surface 48 of the hook is also inclined relative to the sliding direction of the hook but in the other direction (it is of course the same for the hook 3).
  • the frame 8 carries the capstan 9 by partitions 81 between which, in line with the hooks 3 and 4, the axis 91 with its bearings 90 is exposed and can cooperate with the hooks 3 and 4 to penetrate the openings 35. 45.
  • the partitions 80 hold the axis 91 in slots 81, the longest dimension of which is substantially perpendicular to the print head 2 when the capstan 9 is in contact with the line of heating spots.
  • each hook is biased against the head 2 for each spring 33, 43 which has the effect on the one hand, to retain the bearing 90 at the bottom of the opening 45 and thus oppose (at least to a certain degree) to a movement of the capstan in the direction of the opening of the lid (opposite the arrow A Figure 3) and secondly, to apply the capstan against the print head 2 and more precisely against the line of points 22.
  • Each hook being independent, its action at the corresponding end of the axis 91 allows a balanced application of the capstan on the line of heating points which can take into account and correct a positional error of the print head.
  • the bearings 90 at the end of the shaft 91 facing the hooks 3, 4 have the advantage of practically not opposing any rolling resistance of the capstan 2 on the paper covering the head 2 at the closure of the lid and during operation. of the printer.
  • the effort to be developed to separate the chassis 8 from the chassis 1 depends on the shape of the opening 45 at the spout 46. If this shape is shallow, this separation can be carried out by lifting the cover, the restoring force of the hooks that can be overcome by the lifting effort.
  • the locking is positive and the hooks 3 and 4 must be maneuvered in order to release the axle 91.
  • a pusher may be provided for this purpose and in a manual operation of the hooks to move them away. of the print head, the surfaces such as 48 of Figure 3 push the bearings 90 past the spout 46 and promote the unlocking of the lid.
  • the pusher will be provided to act on both hooks at once without however, to constitute a link of these hooks in order to preserve their individual action on the capstan.
  • the axis 91 of the roller 9 is carried in bearings of the frame 8. Nevertheless, to benefit from the corrective action of the hooks on the relative orientation of the axis 91 relative to at the print head 2, and insofar as the mobile frame 8 is carried by a hinged lid to a structure that integrates the fixed frame 1, there is provision for play in this hinge whose axis is substantially parallel to the line of heating points.

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  1. Thermodruckvorrichtung, die geöffnet werden kann und einen ortsfesten Rahmen (1) mit einem Druckkopf (2) umfasst, der mit einer Reihe (22) von Heizpunkten versehen ist, sowie einen relativ zum ortsfesten Rahmen (1) beweglichen Rahmen (8), der über die Enden einer Achse (90, 91) eine zum Halten des Papierbandes vorgesehene Walze (9) trägt, wobei der bewegliche Rahmen zwischen einer ersten Position, in der die Walze (9) über eine ihrer Mantellinien mit der Reihe (22) von Heizpunkten des Kopfes (2) in Kontakt steht, und einer zweiten Position beweglich ist, in der die Walze (9) und der Kopf (2) voneinander entfernt sind, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass der Druckkopf (2) an dem ortsfesten Rahmen (1) befestigt ist und dass er einen Mechanismus enthält, um die Walze (9) in der ersten Relativposition der Rahmen in Anlage an der Reihe (22) von Heizpunkten zu halten, wobei der Mechanismus zur Aufnahme jedes Endes der Achse (90, 91) der Walze (9) einen Haken (3, 4) umfasst, der an dem ortsfesten Rahmen (1) in einer zur Reihe (22) von Heizpunkten senkrechten Richtung verschiebbar gelagert und der Wirkung eines elastischen Rückstellelements (33, 43) ausgesetzt ist, das in Richtung des Druckkopfes (2) wirkt.
  2. Vorrichtung nach Anspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass der bewegliche Rahmen (8) an dem ortsfesten Rahmen (8) mit Spiel um eine Achse angelenkt ist, die im wesentlichen parallel zur Reihe (22) von Heizpunkten ist.
  3. Vorrichtung nach einem der Ansprüche 1 oder 2, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass jedes Ende der Achse (90, 91) der Walze (9) von dem beweglichen Rahmen (8) in einem Schlitzloch (81) getragen wird, das im wesentlichen parallel zur Verschiebungsrichtung des Hakens (3, 4) ist, wenn der bewegliche Rahmen (8) in seiner oben genannten ersten Position ist.
  4. Vorrichtung nach einem der vorhergehenden Ansprüche, bei der der Druckkopf (2) eine Keramikplatte (21) umfasst, die mit einer metallenen Heizvorrichtung (20) verbunden ist, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass der ortsfeste Rahmen (1) aus der Heizvorrichtung (20) gebildet ist, die als Querstrebe zwischen zwei Winkelträgern (10, 11) angeordnet ist, die jeweils eine Schiebeführung (14, 15) für einen Haken (3, 4) umfassen, die im wesentlichen senkrecht zur Heizvorrichtung (20) ist.
  5. Vorrichtung nach einem der vorhergehenden Ansprüche, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass das freie Ende (46) jedes Hakens außen eine Nockenfläche (47) zum Einführen für die Achse (90, 91) der Walze (9) trägt, um den Haken (3, 4) beim Durchtritt der Achse der Walze bei der Bewegung (A) des beweglichen Rahmens (8) von seiner zweiten in seine erste Position von der Heizvorrichtung (20) wegzuschieben.
  6. Vorrichtung nach einem der vorhergehenden Ansprüche, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass jeder Haken (3, 4) eine innere Nockenfläche (48) besitzt, um das Ausrücken der Achse (90, 91) der Walze (9) aus dem Haken bei einer Verschiebung dieses letztgenannten entgegen der Wirkung des Rückstellelements zu erzwingen.
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