EP2045087A1 - Imprimante et appareil émetteur - Google Patents

Imprimante et appareil émetteur Download PDF

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EP2045087A1
EP2045087A1 EP08253217A EP08253217A EP2045087A1 EP 2045087 A1 EP2045087 A1 EP 2045087A1 EP 08253217 A EP08253217 A EP 08253217A EP 08253217 A EP08253217 A EP 08253217A EP 2045087 A1 EP2045087 A1 EP 2045087A1
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sheet
discharge port
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printer
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Akihiko c/o Seiko Instruments Inc. Ito
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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
    • B41J11/006—Means for preventing paper jams or for facilitating their removal
    • 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
    • B41J11/66—Applications of cutting devices
    • 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
    • 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
    • B41J11/0045—Guides for printing material
    • 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
    • B41J11/02—Platens
    • B41J11/04—Roller platens
    • 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
    • B41J15/00—Devices or arrangements of selective printing mechanisms, e.g. ink-jet printers or thermal printers, specially adapted for supporting or handling copy material in continuous form, e.g. webs
    • B41J15/16—Means for tensioning or winding the web
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07B—TICKET-ISSUING APPARATUS; FARE-REGISTERING APPARATUS; FRANKING APPARATUS
    • G07B1/00—Machines for printing and issuing tickets
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07B—TICKET-ISSUING APPARATUS; FARE-REGISTERING APPARATUS; FRANKING APPARATUS
    • G07B3/00—Machines for issuing preprinted tickets
    • G07B3/02—Machines for issuing preprinted tickets from stock in wound strip form
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07B—TICKET-ISSUING APPARATUS; FARE-REGISTERING APPARATUS; FRANKING APPARATUS
    • G07B5/00—Details of, or auxiliary devices for, ticket-issuing machines
    • G07B5/08—Details of, or auxiliary devices for, ticket-issuing machines for avoiding incorrect action of the machine

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  • the present invention relates to a technology effectively used for a printer which performs printing on a roll sheet before discharge thereof, and more particularly, to a technology effectively used for a structure of a discharge portion in which printing can be performed without causing sheet jam even in a state where a discharge port is blocked.
  • a printer in which a roll sheet accommodated in a predetermined accommodating portion is drawn out, a desired printing is performed thereon by a thermal printer or the like, and thereafter, a printed sheet is sent out by conveying rollers to be discharged. Further, there is also provided an issuing apparatus having the printer as described above built-in, and issuing receipts, tickets, or the like.
  • Patent Document 1 it is possible to prevent occurrence of jam when the sheet is deflected owing to blocking of the discharge port by hand. Further, in the invention disclosed in Patent Document 1, the prevention of jam is centered which is caused by a user who waits while picking the leading end of the sheet in the state where the leading end of the sheet protrudes somewhat from the outlet of the discharge port.
  • the embodiment is described therein in which, in order to prevent occurrence of such situation, the leading end of the guide plate disposed below the discharge port is formed to be shorter than that of the guide plate disposed thereabove so that it is difficult for a user to pick the leading end of the sheet, whereby interference of discharge is avoided (refer to FIG. 7 of Patent Document 1).
  • the present invention provides a printer or an issuing apparatus having the printer built-in, in which a leading end of a guide plate disposed below the discharge port for discharging a printed sheet is formed to be shorter than that of a guide plate disposed thereabove such that a space can be formed in which the sheet is allowed to deflect downward when advancement of the leading end of the printed sheet discharged from the discharge port is blocked.
  • the conveyance guide means includes an upper conveyance guide member and a lower conveyance guide member which are disposed with a predetermined gap therebetween, the lower conveyance guide member including a leading end which is formed to be shorter than a leading end of the upper conveyance guide member such that a space can be formed in which the sheet is allowed to deflect downward when advancement of the leading end of the sheet discharged from the discharge port is blocked.
  • the leading end of the guide plate disposed above the discharge port is preferably curved or inclined downward such that the leading end of the discharged sheet becomes less visible. As a result, it is possible to avoid occurrence of such situation in which discharge of the sheet is interfered with by a user intentionally or mistakenly blocking the outlet of the discharge port.
  • a cutting mechanism for cutting the printed sheet to a desired length be provided between the printing means and the conveyance guide means.
  • saw-like teeth may be provided at the outlet of the discharge port so that a user presses the sheet onto the teeth for tearing the sheet.
  • the cutting mechanism it is possible to reduce the burden on the user and to prevent the sheet from being drawn out carelessly long.
  • the present invention has the following effect: a printer and an issuing apparatus can be realized in which there is no risk of causing a jam even when a user blocks the discharge port of the tickets or the like, and in which the occurrence of sheet jam can be effectively prevented, whereby reduction in operation rate due to breakdown of the apparatus can be avoided, and time and cost required for repair is substantially reduced.
  • FIG. 1 is a schematic structural view of a preferred example of a printer to which the present invention is-applied.
  • a printer 10 illustrated in FIG. 1 includes an accommodating portion 11 for accommodating a roll sheet 20 obtained by winding a recording sheet such as a thermosensitive sheet into a roll shape, a thermal printer unit 12 for printing on the roll sheet drawn out of the accommodating portion 11, a cutter unit 13 as a cutting mechanism for cutting the printed sheet into a piece of sheet of a desired length, a bezel 14 as a component of an outlet for discharging the cut piece of sheet to the exterior, and a discharge port 15 constituted by a pair of guide plates 15a, 15b vertically provided so as to protrude from the bezel 14.
  • the thermal printer unit 12 includes a thermal head 12a formed of a plurality of heating elements arranged in rows, a platen roller 12b disposed such that the outer periphery thereof is brought into contact with the thermal head 12a, and a motor (not shown) for rotatably driving the platen roller 12b.
  • the roll sheet is inserted between the thermal head 12a and the platen roller 12b, the platen roller 12b is rotated, and the heating elements of the thermal head are selectively heated while the roll sheet is transferred in the direction of an arrow, whereby printing on the roll sheet is performed.
  • the cutter unit 13 includes a cutter blade of a rotational type or a sliding type and a motor for rotating or moving the cutter blade, in which cutting of the roll sheet is performed by moving the cutter blade in the direction orthogonal to the transfer direction of the roll sheet.
  • the bezel 14 has an opening portion 14a which is formed to be larger upstream in opening area, that is, larger on the side facing the cutter unit 13, and to be narrower on the side of the outlet.
  • the bezel 14 is formed of a synthetic resin or the like. The reason the opening portion 14a is formed to be larger upstream in opening area is that the leading end of the roll sheet having been transferred is facilitated to lead toward the relatively narrow outlet.
  • FIG. 2 illustrates a more detailed structure of the discharge port 15. Note that, in FIG. 2 , a front surface panel 30 of a main body of an issuing apparatus having the printer of the embodiments of the present invention built-in is illustrated.
  • the discharge port 15 includes the upper guide plate 15a and the lower guide plate 15b which face each other with a predetermined gap therebetween so as to constitute the conveyance path of the sheet.
  • a side wall for blocking the side of the conveyance path may be provided, or may be omitted.
  • the leading end of the lower guide plate 15b is formed to be smaller in protruding amount than the leading end of the upper guide plate 15a.
  • a semicircular cutout 15c is provided at a leading end portion of the upper guide plate 15a constituting the discharge port 15, with which the leading end of the discharged sheet is facilitated to pick.
  • the difference in length between the leading ends is determined such that the space can be formed in which the sheet is allowed to deflect downward even when a user picks the leading end of the sheet discharged from the discharge port at the part of the cutout 15c.
  • the leading end of the lower guide plate is shorter than the leading end of the upper guide plate.
  • the leading end of the lower guide plate is made shorter in the second embodiment of Patent Document 1 for the purpose of making it difficult for a user to pick the leading end of the discharged sheet as described in paragraph [0026], and not for the purpose of preventing occurrence of jam.
  • the sheet is deflected upward when discharge is interfered. Meanwhile, the sheet is deflected downward in the subject invention.
  • both the inventions are different from each other.
  • it is possible to deflect the sheet upward for example, by forming the leading end of the upper guide plate 15a to be shorter than the leading end of the lower guide plate 15b.
  • the sheet can be deflected by utilizing the dead weight thereof. Therefore, there is an advantage in that the deflection is more likely to occur than that - in the invention disclosed in Patent Document 1.
  • FIG. 6 illustrates another embodiment of the present invention.
  • the leading end of the lower guide plate 15b constituting the discharge port 15 is made shorter than the leading end of the upper guide plate 15a, and the leading end of the upper guide plate 15a is curved downward.
  • this embodiment there is an advantage in that the leading end of the discharged sheet becomes less visible to a user, and hence interference with discharge of the sheet from the discharge port is reduced.
  • This embodiment is particularly effective in the case of preventing the prank of intentional interference of discharge of the sheet.
  • the difference in length between the leading end of the upper guide plate 15a and the leading end of the lower guide plate 15b is determined such that the space can be formed in which the sheet is allowed to deflect downward when advancement of the leading end of the sheet discharged from the discharge port is interfered.
  • the leading end of the upper guide plate 15a may be formed to be inclined downward instead of being curved.
  • FIG. 7 illustrates a ticket-vending machine as an example of an issuing apparatus having a printer according to the present invention built-in.
  • An issuing apparatus 100 of FIG. 7 has a printer and a card reader built-in, and the front surface thereof is provided with a display portion 110, a card insertion/discharge port 120, the discharge port 15 for discharging tickets printed by the printer described above, operation buttons 130, and the like.
  • the discharge port 15 is provided near the card insertion/discharge port 120, there is a risk that a user mistakenly blocks the discharge port 15 of the tickets by fingers upon reception of a card.
  • the present invention is particularly effective when applied to the issuing apparatus as described above.
  • the present invention is not limited to the above-mentioned embodiments, and various modifications can be made without departing from the scope of the present invention.
  • the embodiment of FIG. 5 and the embodiment of FIG. 6 can be combined with each other.
  • the discharge port may be constituted by a plurality of rails arranged in parallel.
  • the discharge port 15 is provided directly next to the cutter unit 13.
  • the present invention may be applied to a printer provided with a conveyance means formed of an upper roller and a lower roller between the cutter unit 13 and the discharge port 15.
  • the embodiment illustrates the issuing apparatus in which a thermal printer is used as a printing means, the issuing apparatus may be applied to a printer except the thermal printer.
  • the present invention is not limited thereto, but can be widely used in an ATM (automated teller machine) in the financial institution, a cash register in the store, and the other apparatuses having the printer and, preferably, the card reader built-in.
  • ATM automated teller machine

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