JP2004001236A - Laminator - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a lamintor which independently corrects a warpage generated in a card after a lamination process at a conventional wasteless laminator by improving a card warpage correction function after the process. <P>SOLUTION: In this laminator having a thermal contact bonding means for thermally contact bonding a film having a heat bonding layer laminated over the entire surface of the film to the surface of the resin card while pressurizing the film by means of heated heating rolls 20 and 2l, correction means l20 and l2l for independently correcting the warpage of the card generated on its both sides in a card conveying direction are provided downstream of the thermal contact bonding means. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO

Description

[0001]
[Industrial applications]
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a laminator device for thermocompression bonding a transparent film for the purpose of protecting the surface of an ID card having a photo or personal information printed on its surface. The present invention also relates to a waste stress type laminator device for performing lamination while cutting a transparent film continuously wound into a roll into a predetermined length.
[0002]
[Prior art]
In recent years, various types of ID cards have been used. In order to prevent tampering of the ID cards and improve the life of the cards, lamination is performed by thermocompression bonding a transparent film having a thickness of about 30 microns on the surface of the ID card on which desired information is printed. Is being performed. As a device suitable for such lamination processing, a laminator device disclosed in US Pat. No. 5,807,461, US Pat. No. 5,783,024, and US Pat. No. 6,159,327 is known. The laminator device disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 5,807,461 is provided with a transparent film (patch) precut in a predetermined shape on a carrier (transfer mount), and the carrier identifies the position of the precut patch. The laminator device detects this sensor mark prior to lamination, and separates only the patch from the carrier while identifying the position of the precut patch, and thermocompression-bonds it to the surface of the printed ID card. It is a method. In this method, the carrier is discarded as waste, which is becoming undesirable in terms of operation costs and environmental protection.
[0003]
As a lamination method in which such a defect is improved, a method disclosed in US Pat. No. 5,783,024 or US Pat. No. 6,159,327 has been put to practical use. In this method, the leading side of a transparent laminate roll that is continuously wound into a roll is fed out, the laminated film is transported along the film transport path, cut into a predetermined length by a cutter, and then sent from a card printer to a laminator. This is a method in which a printed ID card which is put into the apparatus and conveyed along another conveyance path is overlapped at a junction, and is thermally pressed by a heat roller provided downstream to complete lamination. As a result, the laminated film is always used after cutting only the necessary amount, so that there is an advantage that no wasteful carrier remains like the laminator device disclosed in US Pat. No. 5,807,461. Also called. U.S. Pat. No. 6,159,327 discloses a laminator device for laminating both sides of an inserted card by using a method similar to that of U.S. Pat. No. 5,783,024. However, U.S. Pat. No. 5,807,461 does not disclose a method for correcting card warpage after lamination, and discloses a laminator disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 5,783,024 or U.S. Pat. No. 6,159,327. In the device, after the lamination, a straightening roller of a length corresponding to the width of the card is used to uniformly apply a straightening force in the longitudinal direction of the card. Therefore, sufficient straightening cannot be performed depending on the characteristics of the laminated film used. As shown in FIG. 5, a distorted card is completed. As a result, there are defects in reading and writing of magnetic data provided in the card, defects in reading of bar code data, and a defect that the card becomes inferior. In particular, the degree of this defect is remarkable in a double-sided laminator. I was
[0004]
[Problems to be solved by the invention]
As described above, the conventional laminator apparatus has a problem in that the printed ID card is spoiled because the function of correcting the warpage of the card after lamination is not sufficient. Such inconvenience is a drawback that raises the issuing cost of the ID card, and as a result, prevents the spread of the tamper-resistant and long-life ID card. The present invention eliminates the drawbacks of the conventional example, sufficiently corrects the warpage of the card generated after lamination, and minimizes the generation of useless laminated films, thereby contributing to environmental conservation and reducing operating costs. It is an object to provide a laminator device that performs
[0005]
[Means to solve the problem]
In order to solve such a problem, in the laminator apparatus according to the present invention, a film having a thermal adhesive layer on one surface of a film is thermocompressed to the surface of the resin card while being pressed against a resin card by a heated heat roll. A laminator device having a thermocompression bonding means, which comprises downstream of the thermocompression bonding means, a correction means for correcting the warpage of the card independently of both sides of the card along the card conveyance direction; Film transport means comprising a pair of rollers, each rotatable and having a thermal adhesive layer on one surface of the strip-shaped film, and transporting the rolled film along a first path; Cutting means for cutting the film into a predetermined length in the middle of the first path, and card conveying means for conveying a card along a second path which merges with the first path And a thermocompression unit for superimposing and thermocompressing the cut film on the surface of the card conveyed downstream of the confluence point, on both sides of the card along the card conveyance direction downstream of the thermocompression unit. Correction means for correcting the warpage of the card independently of each other, further comprising two sets of the configuration of the first path, and cutting both sides of the card conveyed along the second path. A laminator device having a thermocompression unit for laminating and thermocompression bonding the respective films is also capable of correcting the warpage of the card independently of both sides of the card along the card transport direction downstream of the thermocompression unit. With the correction means, lamination with less warpage is possible.
[0006]
[Action]
As a result, it is possible to independently correct the warpage of the card generated after lamination on both sides of the card along the card transport direction, thereby preventing a failure of ruining the printed ID card. An ID card without warpage is obtained, and the generation of useless laminated films is minimized, thereby contributing to environmental conservation and reducing operating costs.
[0007]
BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION
FIG. 1 shows an example of the overall configuration of a double-sided laminator device 1 that performs lamination on both sides of the same ID card in a waste stress type laminator device as one embodiment of the laminator device according to the present invention. The transparent laminate roll 2 wound in a roll shape is loaded on the supply spindle 3 and transported along the transport path 240. The laminated film supply monitoring sensor 10 is an optical sensor typified by a reflection type optical sensor, and is provided in the middle of the transport path 240 to monitor the supply state of the laminated film. The laminated film is suspended by a roller 4 provided as a part of the conveying means, passes between both blades of the cutter 7, passes under a laminated film presence / absence detection sensor 11 typified by a reflection type optical sensor, and also passes therethrough. The path is conveyed while being held between rollers 8 and 9 provided as a part of the laminate film conveying means. Here, the physical distance between the cutter 7 and the laminated film presence / absence detection sensor 11 is a design value of the apparatus and is a known value L. Further, the laminating film can be transported from the laminating roll 102 with a substantially symmetrical configuration around a card transport path 250 described later. That is, the transparent laminate roll 102 wound in a roll shape is loaded on the supply spindle 103 and transported along the transport path 241. The laminated film supply monitoring sensor 110 is an optical sensor typified by a reflection type optical sensor, and is provided in the middle of the transport path 241 to monitor the supply state of the laminated film. The laminated film is suspended by a roller 104 provided as a part of the conveying means, passes between both blades of a cutter 107, passes under a laminated film presence / absence detection sensor 111 typified by a reflection-type optical sensor, and also passes therethrough. The path is conveyed while being held between rollers 108 and 109 provided as a part of the laminate film conveying means. Here, the physical distance between the cutter 107 and the laminated film presence / absence detection sensor 111 is a design value of the apparatus and is a known value L, similarly to the case of the transport path 240. On the other hand, the printed card is inserted from the entrance 251 of the laminator device 1, is conveyed on the belt 16 driven by the rollers 13, 14 and 15, and is transported by the roller 12 facing the belt 16 of the roller 13. The card is conveyed along the conveyance path 250 while being gripped, and after the origin is positioned by the card leading edge detection sensor 17 typified by a reflection type optical sensor, the lamination film conveyance path 240 and the lamination film conveyance path 241 and the card conveyance path 250 It is sent to the junction.
[0008]
In the laminate film transport path 240, the driving force of the laminate film transport motor 405 is transmitted to the roller 4 via the laminate load electric clutch 408, and is transmitted to the rollers 5 and 6 via the roller 4 and the gear. Similarly, the driving force can be transmitted to the roller 9 via the roller 8 and the gear via the laminate feed electric clutch 418. In this embodiment, a stepping motor is employed as the laminate film transport motor 405, and the number of rotations can be easily controlled by controlling the number of driving pulses. Therefore, the amount of rotation of the rollers 4 and 8 can be easily controlled. Further, by combining the on / off control of the laminate load electric clutch 408 and the laminate feed electric clutch 418 with the rotation amount control of the motor, the conveyance of the laminate film can be finely controlled. Also in the laminate film transport path 241, similarly to the laminate film transport path 240, the driving force of the laminate film transport motor 420 is transmitted to the roller 104 via the laminate load electric clutch 422, and the rollers 105 and 106 Is transmitted through a roller 104 and a gear. Similarly, the driving force can be transmitted to the roller 109 via the laminate feed electric clutch 421 via the roller 108 and the gear. On the other hand, a card transport motor 403 is also prepared as a drive source in the card transport system, and a stepping motor is also used for this motor. Therefore, if the number of drive pulses for the card transport motor 403 is managed, the transport amount of the card can be finely controlled. The driving force of the card transport motor 403 is transmitted to the roller 12, and further transmitted from the driving shaft of the roller 12 to the roller 13, the roller 18, the heat roller 20, and the roller 22 via a gear or a toothed belt. Further, a driving force is transmitted to the rollers facing each roller via gears. It should be noted that the same transport control is performed even if the laminated film transport motors 405 and 420 are eliminated from the above configuration and the drive force of the card transport motor 403 is transmitted to each roller of the card transport system via the electric clutch. It is possible. In this embodiment, an example in which a stepping motor is used as a driving source for transporting the laminated film and for transporting the card has been described. However, the same transport can be performed even if a servomotor equipped with a rotation speed sensor such as a rotary encoder is used. Control is possible.
[0009]
As shown in FIG. 3, the laminating roll 2 is fed out from the leading end 29 of the band-shaped film having the width W1, and the continuous laminating film 24 is sequentially cut by the cutter 7 at the cutting position 28 and the cutting position 27. . The laminated film 24 may be a transparent film or a film subjected to hologram processing for the purpose of preventing forgery. FIG. 4 shows the laminated roll 2 in a cut state. The continuous laminating film 24 on the leading side is cut at a cutting position 28 corresponding to the length L to become a laminated film 30, and the cut surface 26 is then cut. It is the leading end of the laminated film to be formed. Further, the laminating roll 102 used for lamination on the back side of the card is also in the same cutting state. The dotted arrow indicated by 127 in FIG. 4 indicates the residual stress left on the base film during the processing of the laminating roll 2, and this residual stress 127 is applied to the card when the card softened during lamination cools and hardens again. This causes warpage. FIG. 5 shows an example of an ID card 31 in which significant warpage has occurred after double-sided lamination.
[0010]
The laminated film 30 cut in this manner is superimposed on the front and back surfaces of the printed ID card at the junction, and sent between the heat roller 20 and the heat roller 21 provided downstream and thermocompression-bonded. Immediately after the heat roller 20 and the heat roller 21, the support plate 122 is provided with a warp straightening mechanism constituted by rollers that can independently contact and rotate on both sides of the card 31 in the transport direction. After the lamination, the warp due to the residual stress of the laminating film 30 is corrected by the straightening mechanism of the lamination ID card 31, and then the discharging operation is performed by the rollers 22 and 23, and the ID of the lamination completed from the outlet 252 of the laminator device 1. The card is ejected. FIG. 6 shows an ID card provided with such a lamination.
[0011]
Here, the configuration of the warp correcting mechanism attached to the support plate 122 will be described in detail with reference to FIG. FIG. 2 shows a view of the warp correction mechanism viewed from the direction of arrow F in FIG. The axes of the correction rollers 120 and 121 for applying a correction force to the card 31 along the card transport direction are fixed to a correction roller support plate 123, and the correction roller support plate 123 can be adjusted and moved in the direction of arrow B1. The correction roller support plate 123 adjusted to a desired position is fixed to the support plate 122 with the fixing screw 61. Similarly, the axes of the correction rollers 125 and 126 are also fixed to the correction roller support plate 124, and the correction roller support plate 124 can be adjusted and moved in the direction of arrow B2. The straightening roller support plate 124 adjusted to a desired position is also fixed to the support plate 122 with fixing screws (not shown). In this way, B1 and B2 in the adjustment movement direction can each independently determine the displacement position with respect to the card transport path 250. Also, the support plate 122 itself can be adjusted and moved in the direction of arrow S1, and after being adjusted to a desired position, can be fixed to the frame 501 of the laminator 1 with the fixing screw 60. Further, it is fixed to the frame 502 with fixing screws (not shown). However, if the rigidity of the support plate 122 is sufficient, the fixing screw on the frame 502 side can be omitted. As a result, even if the direction of the residual stress 127 shown in FIG. 4 is generated in a direction different from that in FIG. 4, the warpage after lamination can be corrected by adjusting the height position of each correction roller pair.
[0012]
Next, the process of transporting the laminated film will be briefly described. In the laminator device 1, the lamination roll 2 is loaded on the supply spindle 3, and the lamination roll 102 is also loaded on the supply spindle 103. Subsequently, the process of sequentially cutting the laminated film will be described with respect to the film transport path 240. Since the cutting process in the film transport path 241 is the same, the description is omitted. FIG. 7 is a view showing a process of determining a cutting position before cutting the continuous laminated film 24, and FIG. 8 is a view showing a state after cutting. In the following description, both the laminate load electric clutch 408 and the laminate feed electric clutch 418 are in the ON state where power can be transmitted. When the leading end 29 of the continuous laminated film 24 fed from the laminating roll 2 by the driving of the laminated film transport motor 405 passes through both blades of the cutter 7 and the leading end 29 is detected by the laminated film presence / absence detecting sensor 11, the sensor The output signal becomes active. The laminator device 1 determines that the laminate film 24 has reached the predetermined length L to be cut based on the change in the sensor output signal, and stops the drive of the laminate film transport motor 405 to temporarily stop the transport of the laminate film. . When the cutter 7 is operated at this position, a laminating film 30 having a certain length L can be formed on the transport path 240 by a cutting operation as shown in FIG. Thereafter, the laminate load electric clutch 408 is turned off, and when the driving of the laminate film transport motor 405 is restarted, the driving force of the laminate film transport motor 405 is transmitted to the rollers 8 and 9 via the laminate feed electrical clutch 418. Therefore, the cut laminate film 30 is transported in the direction of arrow A1. Thereafter, the cut front side laminate film and back side laminate film merge with the ID card 31 at a junction composed of the rollers 18 and 19, and are simultaneously thermocompression-bonded by the heat rollers 20 and 21.
[0013]
At this time, as described above, the card 31 is once softened, and warpage occurs at the time of re-curing due to the effect of the residual stress 127 of the laminate film. Will be. In the example of FIG. 9, for the ID card 31 immediately after the lamination, the correction rollers 125 and 126 are located below the line of the card transport path 250, and the correction rollers 120 and 121 are located above the line of the card transport path 250. Adjusting and adding correction power. When a laminate film having a residual stress in the opposite direction is used, as shown in FIG. 10, the straightening rollers 125 and 126 of the ID card 31 immediately after lamination are connected to the line of the card transport path 250. The straightening rollers 120 and 121 are adjusted to be lower than the line of the card transport path 250 to apply a straightening force. Furthermore, when the residual stress of the laminated film exists in the direction along the film transport direction and the residual stress of the upper and lower laminated films is different, or when the thermocompression force of the laminated film is different between the upper and lower in the printed state of the card surface, As shown in FIG. 11, the amounts of displacement of the straightening rollers 120 and 121 and the straightening rollers 125 and 126 with respect to the line of the card transport path 250 are made the same so that the straightening force can be adjusted only in the vertical direction S1 of the support plate 122. It is. Further, depending on the degree of warpage, it is possible to flexibly perform effective correction by combining the position adjustment directions B1 and B2 of each correction roller and the position adjustment direction S1 of the support plate 122.
[0014]
FIG. 12 is a schematic block diagram of a control unit mounted inside the laminator device 1. The entire control unit of the laminator device 1 is mainly composed of an arithmetic processing circuit 401 composed of a microprocessor or the like, a card transport control circuit 402, a card transport motor 403, a laminate film transport control circuit 404, laminate film transport motors 405 and 420, Cutter drive circuit 406, clutch drive circuit 407, laminate load electric clutches 408 and 422, laminate feed electric clutches 418 and 421, sensor signal processing circuit 409, heater temperature control circuit 410, heaters 411 and 414, operation panel signal processing circuit 412 It is composed of an operation panel 413 and the like. The laminate load electric clutch 408 is used to transmit or cut off the driving force of the laminate film transport motor 405 to the roller 4, and the laminate feed electric clutch 418 transmits the drive force of the laminate film transport motor 405 to the roller 8. Or used to block. Similarly, the laminate load electric clutch 422 is used to transmit or cut off the driving force of the laminate film transport motor 420 to the roller 104, and the laminate feed electric clutch 421 transmits the drive force of the laminate film transport motor 420 to the roller 108. It is used to communicate to and block off. The rollers 5 and 6 are connected to the roller 4 by gears, the rollers 8 and 9 are also connected to each other by gears, and similarly, the rollers 105 and 106 are connected to the roller 104 by gears, and the rollers 108 and 109 are similarly connected. Are also connected to each other by gears. Each roller along the transport path 250 is driven by transmitting the driving force of the card transport motor 403.
[0015]
Hereinafter, the operation of the control unit will be briefly described. The arithmetic processing circuit 401 first rotates the laminate film transport motor 405 via the laminate film transport control circuit 404 to feed out the laminate film 24, and at the same time, the laminate load electric clutch 408 and the laminate feed electric clutch 418 are activated. The roller 4 and the roller 8 rotate in synchronization with each other, and are conveyed until the leading end 29 of the laminated film 24 reaches the sensitive position of the laminated film presence / absence detection sensor 11. When the leading end 29 of the laminate film 24 reaches the sensitive position of the laminate film presence / absence detection sensor 11, the output of the laminate film presence / absence detection sensor 11 becomes active, and this active signal is sent to the arithmetic processing circuit 401 via the sensor signal processing circuit 409. Sent. The arithmetic processing circuit 401 temporarily stores the position information where the active signal is generated in an internal storage device, and uses this position as the origin of the laminating position on the printed ID card when the card is synchronously transported later. Referenced. At the same time, the rotation of the laminate film transport motor 405 is stopped, and the cutter 7 is driven through the cutter drive circuit 406 to perform a cutting operation. After that, the arithmetic processing circuit 401 conveys the cut laminate film 30 in the direction of arrow A1. Control of the transport of the laminated film on the film transport path 241 is also performed on each component in the same sequence as described above.
[0016]
On the other hand, in the printed ID card 31, the signal of which the leading edge 310 is detected by the card leading edge detection sensor 17 is sent to the arithmetic processing circuit 401 via the sensor signal processing circuit 409, and the detected position information is temporarily stored in the internal storage device. And is referred to as origin information at the time of subsequent card transport control. As a result, the printed ID card 31 is transported along the transport path 250 while controlling the transport amount in the C1 direction by the roller 12 or the like connected to the card transport motor 403 driven by a pulse command. Similarly, the cut laminated film is conveyed along the conveyance paths 240 and 241 in synchronization with the printed ID card 31, and is printed at the junction of the laminated film conveyance paths 240 and 241 and the card conveyance path 250. And is fed between a heat roller 20 and a heat roller 21 provided downstream. Heaters 411 and 414 are built in the centers of the heat rollers 20 and 21, respectively, and the temperature control is performed by a heater temperature control circuit 410 so that the surface temperature of the heat rollers 20 and 21 becomes an optimum temperature for lamination. The laminated films 30 and 130 are simultaneously thermocompression-bonded to the surface of the ID card 31 reliably.
[0017]
FIG. 6 shows an example of an ID card in which the lamination has been completed and the warpage has been corrected. A laminating film 30 is attached to the front surface of the ID card 31, and lamination is performed so as to improve the peel resistance while leaving substantially uniform margins 311, 312, and 314 on the sides of the card. A similar lamination is performed. In the case of an ID card having a magnetic stripe on one side, a laminating roll having a narrow width is used, and laminating is performed so as to avoid the magnetic stripe area. In addition, since uneven lamination is performed on the front and rear surfaces of the ID card, the card is likely to be warped, and the independent warp correcting mechanism of the present invention also exerts a correcting effect.
[0018]
In the detailed description of the present invention, the configuration has been described in which the card transport motor 403 and the laminate film transport motors 405 and 420 are separately provided as drive sources for the lamination mechanism. It is apparent that the same effect as that of the present invention can be obtained even when the transmission and disconnection are performed by the electric clutch. In addition, the reflection type optical sensor has been described as an example of the detection sensor of the laminated film or the printed ID card. However, it is obvious that the same effect can be obtained by substituting a sensor of another type. Further, the material of the ID card to be laminated is generally made of PVC, but the lamination can also be performed on a card of a composite material such as PET-G, and the present invention can be applied regardless of the card material. It is obvious. In addition, the present invention can be applied to an application in which lamination is performed while cutting a continuous film on a base material having another shape without being limited to an ID card. In addition, although the description has been given of the waistless double-sided laminator as an embodiment, the present invention is also applicable to a patch-type laminator disclosed in US Pat. No. 5,807,461. It is apparent that even when the present invention is applied to a single-sided laminator apparatus in which the above-described method is omitted, the same effect can be obtained, such as the convenience of correcting warpage due to residual stress of various laminated films.
[0019]
【The invention's effect】
As described above, in the laminator device according to the present invention, a film having a thermal adhesive layer on one surface of a film is thermally pressed to the surface of the resin card while being pressed against a resin card by a heated heat roll. A laminator device having a crimping means, a correcting means for correcting the warpage of the card independently of both sides of the card along the card conveying direction downstream of the thermocompression means, and A film transport means comprising a pair of rollers which are rotatable, each of which has a thermal adhesive layer on one surface of the belt-shaped film, and transports the rolled film along a first path; Cutting means for cutting the film to a predetermined length in one path, card conveying means for conveying a card along a second path which merges with the first path, A laminator device having a thermocompression unit for superimposing and thermocompressing the cut film on the surface of the card conveyed downstream of the point, on both sides of the card along the card conveyance direction downstream of the thermocompression unit. Correction means for correcting the warpage of the card independently of each other, further comprising two sets of the first path, each of which is cut on both sides of the card conveyed along the second path A laminator device having a thermocompression means for laminating and thermocompression bonding the films, and a correcting means for correcting the warpage of the card independently on both sides of the card along the card conveying direction downstream of the thermocompression means. , Which enables lamination with less warpage, so that the warpage of the card generated after lamination is applied independently to both sides of the card along the card transport direction. As a result, it is possible to prevent the failure of ruining the printed ID card, to obtain an ID card without warpage, to minimize the generation of useless laminated film, and to reduce the operating cost while contributing to environmental conservation. Can be realized.
[Brief description of the drawings]
FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a configuration example of a waste stress type laminator device according to the present invention.
FIG. 2 is a view showing an example of a warp correcting mechanism used in the laminator device of the present invention.
FIG. 3 is a view showing an example of a laminate film used in the laminator device of the present invention.
FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example in which a laminate film fed from a laminate roll is cut.
FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating an example of an ID card that has been subjected to lamination by a conventional laminator device.
FIG. 6 is a diagram showing an ID card that has been subjected to lamination by the laminator device of the present invention.
FIG. 7 is a diagram showing a state immediately before cutting of a laminated film in the laminator apparatus according to the present invention.
FIG. 8 is a view showing a state immediately after the laminating film is cut by the laminator device according to the present invention.
FIG. 9 is a diagram illustrating an example in which the position of a warp correction roller is adjusted in the laminator device according to the present invention.
FIG. 10 is a diagram showing another example in which the position of the warp correction roller is adjusted in the laminator device according to the present invention.
FIG. 11 is a diagram showing an example in which the position of the support plate of the warp correcting mechanism is adjusted in the laminator device according to the present invention.
FIG. 12 is a diagram showing an example of a schematic configuration of a control unit mounted on the laminator device according to the present invention.
[Explanation of symbols]
1 Laminator device
2,102 Laminating roll
4,5,6,8,9,104,105,108,109, Laminated film transport roller
7,107 cutters
10,110 Laminated film supply monitoring sensor
11,111 Laminated film presence detection sensor
12, 13, 14, 15 ID card transport roller
16 ID card transport belt
17 Card leading edge detection sensor
20, 21 Heat roller
24 Continuous laminated film
30 Cut laminated film
120, 121, 125, 126 Straightening roller
123, 124 Straightening roller support plate
122 support plate
240,241 Laminated film transport path
250 Card transport path
401 arithmetic processing circuit
403 Card transport motor
405,420 Laminated film transport motor
408,422 Laminated road electric clutch
409 Sensor signal processing circuit
413 Operation panel
418,421 Laminated feed electric clutch

Claims (4)

In a laminator apparatus having a thermocompression bonding means for thermocompression bonding a film having a thermal adhesive layer on one surface of a film to a resin card while applying pressure to the resin card by a heated heat roll, A laminator device provided downstream with a correcting means for correcting the warpage of the card independently of both sides of the card along the card transport direction. 2. The laminator apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said correction transport means is constituted by a pair of rotatable rollers. A film transporting means having a thermal adhesive layer on one side of the belt-like film and transporting the rolled film along a first path, and cutting the film to a predetermined length in the middle of the first path; Cutting means, card conveying means for conveying a card along a second path which merges with the first path, and heat for laminating and thermocompression bonding the cut film on a card surface conveyed downstream of the junction. The laminator device according to claim 1, further comprising a crimping unit. 2. The method according to claim 1, wherein each of the cut films is overlapped and thermocompression-bonded to both sides of the card conveyed along the second path, the two sets having the configuration of the first path. 3. Laminator device.

Images