JP2008026535A - Label - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a label whose part (an information display part 6) for displaying the information of a material M to be stuck does not bend even when stuck on the material M whose surface is not plane but rugged or curved, so that the optical reading of a bar code 9, a two-dimensional code, and the like can be properly carried out. <P>SOLUTION: The label is provided focusing on the technology of: separating respective zones of a sticking part 5 and the information display part 6; and making only the sticking part 5 stickable to the material M and making the information display part 6 unstickable to the material M. The label is composed of a sticking part 5 stickable to a surface MA to be stuck and the information display part 6 connected to the sticking part 5 and displaying the information of the material M. The information display part 6 is made unstickable to the surface MA. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&amp;INPIT

Description

The present invention relates to a label, and more particularly to a label that is attached to an object to be attached whose surface is not flat but uneven or curved, and displays information related to the object to be attached.

In a conventional retail store or the like, there are cases where merchandise such as fruits, especially fruits, is sold by directly attaching a merchandise label.
In the case of such single item sales, the label usually affixed is a size of about 20 × 30 mm, for example, according to the size of the product, and displays the product name, product code by barcode such as JAN code, price, etc. Has been.
However, if the label is pasted on a fruit to be pasted, such as an apple, the apple has a spherical shape, so that the corner of the pasted label is peeled off or wrinkles are generated. As a result, even if the product code is converted into a bar code, the bar code scanner cannot read the bar code or an error occurs because the label itself is wrinkled or curved along the shape of the object to be attached. There is a problem that there are cases.
Of course, in addition to fruits, when a label is attached to a product or other object to be attached whose surface is not flat but curved or curved, the same information as described above is displayed. A problem occurs.

Utility Model Registration No. 3053639

    The present invention has been considered in view of the above problems, and a label that can be attached to an object to be attached whose surface is not flat but uneven or curved and can display information on the object to be attached. The issue is to provide.

    Another object of the present invention is to provide a label capable of properly displaying necessary information regardless of the shape of an object to be attached and capable of appropriately optically reading a barcode or a two-dimensional code. And

    Moreover, this invention makes it a subject to provide the label which can be hold | maintained in the planar state which can be optically read, without curving the part (information display part) which displayed the information regarding a to-be-adhered thing.

    That is, the present invention focuses on separating the respective areas of the pasting part and the information display part, and allowing only the pasting part to be pasted on the object to be pasted, and the information display part making it impossible to paste. The label to be applied to an object to be attached whose surface to be attached is not flat and is attached to the attachment part that can be attached to the object to be attached, and connected to the attachment part, and the object to be attached An information display unit displaying information regarding the information display unit. The information display unit is a label characterized in that the information display unit cannot be pasted on the surface to be pasted.

    The information display unit can display the information on the object to be pasted by a barcode or a two-dimensional code.

    While the said sticking part has an adhesive layer in the back surface, the said information display part can have the mount which covers the adhesive layer formed in the back surface.

    While the said sticking part has an adhesive layer in the back surface, the said information display part can have a paste killing agent layer which covers the adhesive layer formed in the back surface.

    The affixing unit and the information display unit have a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer and a mount covering the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer on the back surface, and a separation slit is formed in the mount at the boundary between the affixing unit and the information display unit, The mounts in the pasting part and the information display part can be separated from each other, and the mount in the pasting part can be peeled off to expose the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer in the pasting part.

    While having a strip-shaped label base material, an adhesive layer formed on the back surface of the label base material, and a mount covering the adhesive layer, the label base material and the adhesive layer corresponding to the pasting part Punched into the shape of the affixing part, punched out the label base material corresponding to the information display part, the adhesive layer and the mount into the shape of the information display part leaving a part of the non-punched part, and the affixing A separation slit may be formed in the mount at the boundary between the information display section and the information display section so that the mounts in the pasting section and the information display section can be separated from each other.

    Between the said sticking part and the said information display part, it can have a connection part of the predetermined length which connects these.

In the label according to the present invention, the region of the pasting part and the region of the information display part are separated, and only the pasting part can be pasted on the article to be pasted. For the object to be attached whose surface to be attached is curved, only the attaching part can be securely attached to the object to be attached, and the information display part is not attached to the object to be attached. The barcode and the two-dimensional code displayed on the information display unit can be reliably read optically.

    The present invention separates the area of the affixing part and the area of the information display part, enables only the affixing part to be affixed to the object to be adhered, and makes the information display part incapable of being affixed. The label that can properly maintain both the pasting function and the display function has been realized.

Next, a label 1 according to a first embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS.
1 is a plan view of the label 1, FIG. 2 is a rear view of the label 1, and FIG. 3 is a cross-sectional view taken along line III-III of FIG. 1, and as shown in FIG. In the direction, it has a label substrate 2, an adhesive layer 3, and a mount 4.
The label 1 is for sticking to an object to be attached M (for example, a fruit such as an apple, imaginary line in FIG. 1) whose surface to be attached MA is not a flat surface but has a curved shape, for example, In the plane direction, it has the sticking part 5, the information display part 6, and the connection part 7. FIG.

    About the material of the label base material 2 and the adhesive layer 3, this is selected according to the characteristic of the adherend M.

The affixing part 5 peels off the mount 4 (in FIG. 3, phantom line) in this part, makes the adhesive layer 3 exposed to the back surface, and affixes only this part to the to-be-adhered surface MA.
In addition, even if the sticking part 5 is affixed on the to-be-attached surface MA which exhibited the curved surface shape of the to-be-attached thing M, the display which does not have a trouble in reading can be performed.
Further, in the pasting part 5, a notch 8 can be made in a predetermined portion so that the pasting part 5 can be easily pasted in accordance with the curved surface shape of the pasting surface MA of the pasting object M. The cut 8 is formed in a direction along the peeling direction when the label 1 is peeled off from the adherend surface MA, so that the label 1 (sticking portion 5) can be peeled off from the adherend M.

The information display unit 6 is coupled to the pasting unit 5 via the coupling unit 7 and displays information about the article to be pasted M with a barcode 9 (or a two-dimensional code), and this is the pasted surface MA. It cannot be pasted.
That is, the information display unit 6 has the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer 3 on the back surface side thereof similarly to the pasting unit 5, and the mount 4 is positioned so as to cover the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer 3 from the lower surface side.

    The connection part 7 connects these between the affixing part 5 and the information display part 6, has a predetermined width and length, and the mount 4 in the boundary part of the affixing part 5 and the information display part 6 A separation slit 10 is formed on the substrate.

    In the manufacturing process of the label 1, the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer 3 is uniformly applied to the label substrate 2 to temporarily attach the mount 4, and the die is cut into the shape of the affixing part 5, the information display part 6 and the connecting part 7 and connected At the part of the separation slit 10 in the part 7, the mount 4 (in FIG. 3, the phantom line) of only the part of the sticking part 5 is peeled off to expose the adhesive layer 3 in the sticking part 5 and only the sticking part 5 is stuck. The information can be pasted on the surface MA, and the information display unit 6 cannot paste it.

In the label 1 having such a configuration, only the portion of the affixing portion 5 is affixed to the affixed surface MA, and the information display portion 6 does not affix to the affixed surface MA having a curved shape or unevenness. The display unit 6 can maintain a flat state without being curved, and can appropriately optically read the displayed barcode 9.
Since there is a connecting portion 7 between the pasting portion 5 that is pasted and fixed and the information display portion 6 in the free state, the information display portion 6 is the length of the connecting portion 7 from the surface MA to be pasted. Therefore, the reading operation can be performed more easily.
Moreover, since the width | variety of the connection part 7 is made smaller than the width | variety of the sticking part 5 and the information display part 6, in addition to the length of the connection part 7, the information display part 6 is inclined to the inclination | tilt angle of the predetermined range. Therefore, the workability in the reading operation can be further increased.

FIG. 4 is a cross-sectional view similar to FIG. 3 of the label 20 according to the second embodiment of the present invention. In the label 20, instead of temporarily mounting the mount 8 on the adhesive layer 3 of the information display unit 6. The paste-killing agent layer 21 is formed so that the information display unit 6 cannot be pasted, and the mount 4 is temporarily attached only to the pasting unit 5 and then peeled off to attach the adhesive layer 3 to the surface MA to be pasted. Can be exposed.
Other configurations are the same as those of the label 1 (FIG. 1).

    Also in the label 20 having such a configuration, the information display unit 6 does not stick to the adherend surface MA as in the above-described label 1 (first embodiment, FIG. 1). The bar code 9 of the information display unit 6 can be optically read without being curved in accordance with the curved surface of the pasting surface MA.

FIG. 5 is a plan view of the label 30 according to the third embodiment of the present invention. In the label 30, the connecting portion 7 is not formed between the attaching portion 5 and the information display portion 6, and the attaching portion 5 is not formed. The information display unit 6 is directly connected.
Other configurations can be the same as the label 1 (FIG. 1) or the label 20.

    Even in the label 30 having such a configuration, even if the information display unit 6 is slightly curved along the curved surface of the attachment surface MA, it can be attached and displayed on the attachment object M in the same manner as the labels 1 and 20. In addition, the label 30 itself is not wrinkled, and the bar code 9 can be optically read.

As described above, the label 1 (FIG. 1), the label 20 (FIG. 4), and the label 30 (FIG. 5) described above are die-cut by laminating the label base 2, the adhesive layer 3, and the mount 4 as described above. This can be manufactured, but can also be provided, for example, in the form of a label roll, for example, in the form of a roll in which the labels 1, 20, 30 are continuous.
6 is a perspective view of a roll-shaped label 40 according to a fourth embodiment of the present invention in which a plurality of labels 1 are continuously formed, and FIG. 7 is a cross-sectional view taken along line VII-VII in FIG. The label 40 includes the strip-shaped label base material 2, the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer 3 formed on the back surface of the label base material 2, and the mount 4 that covers the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer 3.

The label base material 2 and the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer 3 corresponding to the sticking part 5 are punched into the shape of the sticking part 5 (half cut), and the label base material 2, the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer 3 and the mount 4 corresponding to the information display part 6 are partly This is punched into the shape of the information display part 6 with the non-punched part 41 remaining (all cuts).
In addition, a separation slit 10 is formed in the mount 4 at the boundary between the pasting unit 5 and the information display unit 6 so that the mounts 4 in the pasting unit 5 and the information display unit 6 can be separated from each other.
A position detection mark 42 is printed on the back surface of the mount 4 at a predetermined pitch, and the label 40 is loaded in an arbitrary printer (not shown) and transferred based on a detection signal from the position detection mark. The predetermined information including the barcode 9 and the like can be printed on the pasting part 5 and the information display part 6 of the label 1.

With the roll-shaped label 40 having such a configuration, the label 40 can be loaded into the printer or the like, and any variable information can be printed on each label 1 as necessary, and the non-punched portion 41 is cut. The label 1 (FIG. 1) can be directly peeled off from the label 40.

It is a top view of the label 1 by the 1st Example of this invention. It is a back view of the label 1 in the same. It is the III-III sectional view taken on the line of FIG. It is sectional drawing similar to FIG. 3 of the label 20 by the 2nd Example of this invention. It is a top view of the label 30 by the 3rd Example of this invention. It is a perspective view of the roll-shaped label 40 by the 4th Example of this invention which formed the several sheets of the label 1 continuously. FIG. 7 is a sectional view taken along line VII-VII in FIG. 6.

Explanation of symbols

1 Label (first embodiment, FIGS. 1 to 3)
2 Label base material 3 Adhesive layer 4 Mount 5 Pasting part 6 Information display part 7 Connection part 8 Cutting 9 Bar code 10 Separation slit 20 Label (2nd Example, FIG. 4)
21 Labeling layer 30 Label (third embodiment, FIG. 5)
40 Roll-shaped label (fourth embodiment, FIG. 6)
41 Non-punched portion 42 Position detection mark M Fruits such as apples and other objects to be pasted (Fig. 1)
MA surface to be adhered M

Claims (7)

It is a label for sticking to the object to be attached whose surface to be attached is not flat,
A pasting part that can be pasted on the pasted surface;
While being connected to this pasting part, an information display part displaying information about the pasted object,
Have
This information display part is a label characterized in that it cannot be attached to the surface to be attached. The label according to claim 1, wherein the information display unit displays the information on the object to be pasted by a barcode or a two-dimensional code. The pasting part has an adhesive layer on the back surface,
The label according to claim 1, wherein the information display unit includes a mount that covers an adhesive layer formed on the back surface thereof. The pasting part has an adhesive layer on the back surface,
The label according to claim 1, wherein the information display unit has a paste-killing agent layer covering an adhesive layer formed on the back surface thereof. The affixing part and the information display part have a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer and a mount covering the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer on the back surface,
A separation slit is formed in the mount at the boundary portion between the pasting portion and the information display portion so that the mount in the pasting portion and the information display portion can be separated from each other, and the mount in the pasting portion is peeled off, The label according to claim 1, wherein the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer in the pasting part can be exposed. A strip-shaped label substrate;
An adhesive layer formed on the back surface of the label substrate;
And having a mount that covers this adhesive layer,
The label base material corresponding to the pasting part and the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer are punched into the shape of the pasting part,
Punching out the label base material corresponding to the information display unit, the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer and the mount in the shape of the information display unit leaving a part of the non-punched part, and
The label according to claim 1, wherein a separation slit is formed in the mount at a boundary portion between the pasting portion and the information display portion so that the mounts in the pasting portion and the information display portion can be separated from each other. The label according to claim 1, further comprising a connecting portion having a predetermined length connecting the pasting portion and the information display portion.

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