JP2020160601A - Magazine holder, card supply device, and card printer - Google Patents

Abstract

To provide a card storage unit which allows a card to be easily set to a card printer and allows the card to be supplied to the card printer with reduced increase in size.SOLUTION: A magazine holder 21 relating to this invention is built in a card printer 50, and a card magazine 10 having a shape like a quadrangular tube including a first bottom floor part 10E and a first side wall body 10F having four first side walls standing from the first bottom floor part 10E is inserted to the magazine holder 21. The magazine holder 21 has a shape like a quadrangular tube including a second bottom floor part 21E and a second side wall body 21F including four second side walls standing from the second bottom floor part 21E, and magazine retainers 80 and 90 which retain the card magazine 10 are provided in an upper end of the magazine holder 21.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 5

Description

The present invention relates to a card printer for manufacturing a card or the like that requires safety (security) such as forgery or alteration prevention, and a magazine holder and a card supply device incorporated therein.

Examples of cards that require security include identification cards (ID cards) and credit cards. Such a card may be created through a first-stage printing process for printing a pattern or the like for ensuring security and a second-stage printing process for printing characters or the like.

Examples of the printing performed in the printing process in the previous stage include watermark printing, micro character printing, rainbow printing, pearl printing and the like. Further, when manufacturing a card with an IC chip, a pre-printing process and a post-printing process may be performed after the pre-printing card containing the IC chip is created.

When the pre-stage printing process and the post-stage printing process are performed as described above, the card printer that performs the pre-stage printing process and the card printer that performs the post-stage printing process are usually configured as separate devices. In this case, the work of setting the card printed by the printing process of the first stage into the card printer of the second stage occurs.

Patent Document 1 discloses a card printer in which a container containing a plurality of pre-printed cards containing an IC chip is directly mounted, and the cards are sequentially supplied from the container to the printing unit of the card printer.

In the above card printer, the work of setting the card into the card printer becomes easy, but since a special container having a structure for mounting on the card printer is required in addition to simply storing the card. It costs a lot of container cost. Considering this point, even if the container is reused, the cost of collecting the container, the subsequent inspection, cleaning, etc. are required, so that a significant cost reduction cannot be expected.

On the other hand, the applicant includes a card wrapping container that can be formed at a low cost, a holder for storing the card wrapping container, and an adapter for attaching the holder containing the card wrapping container to the card printer. The device is proposed in Patent Document 2. Although this device requires a holder and an adapter, the card packaging container can be easily formed, which provides a cost advantage in long-term use.

Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. 2005-339249 JP-A-2018-77781

When mounting the device of Patent Document 2 on a card printer, the card packaging container is housed in the holder from above, the adapter is attached to the holder from above, and after this assembly is inverted, the adapter is used as the card. It is mounted on the card mounting part of the printer from above. However, such work may be time-consuming.

The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and is a card magazine or card capable of easily setting a card in a card printer and supplying the card to the card printer while suppressing the increase in size. It is an object of the present invention to provide a feeding device and a card printer.

In order to solve the above problems, the magazine holder of the present invention is incorporated in a card printer and has a first bottom floor portion and a first side wall body having four first side walls rising from the first bottom floor portion. A magazine holder into which a card magazine having a square tubular shape is inserted, including a second bottom floor portion and a second side wall body including four second side walls rising from the second bottom floor portion. It has a square tubular shape, and a magazine holding portion for holding the card magazine is provided at the upper end of the magazine holder.

Further, the magazine holder is provided with a first flap and a second flap on each of the pair of first side walls of the card magazine facing each other, and the magazine holding portion is provided on the magazine holder to provide the magazine holder with the first flap. It may have a flap holding portion which holds the first flap and the second flap along the outer wall surface of the two side walls between the corresponding second side wall. The flap holding portion has a U-shaped rotation holding frame that rotates around a horizontally extending rotation shaft provided at its end, and the rotation holding frame is the first flap. It has a first rotating member that holds the second rotating member, a second rotating member that holds the second flap, and a first connecting member that connects the first rotating member and the second rotating member. May be good. The flap holding portion is composed of a pair of open / close holding plates provided on the magazine holder so as to be rotatable around a rotation shaft extending in the vertical direction provided at the end thereof, and one of the open / close holding plates is said. The opening / closing holding plate may hold the first flap and the other opening / closing holding plate may hold the second flap. The flap holding portion has a U-shaped slide holding frame provided so as to be slidable in a horizontal direction with respect to the outer wall surface of the second side wall body of the magazine holder, and the slide holding frame is the slide holding frame. It has a first slide member that holds the first flap, a second slide member that holds the second flap, and a second connecting member that connects the first slide member and the second slide member. May be good.

Further, the magazine holder is a magazine holding portion held by the magazine holding portion in a state where the upper end portion of the first side wall body of the card magazine and the upper end portion of the second side wall body of the magazine holder are overlapped with each other. May have. The magazine holding portion has a quadrangular rotating holding frame that rotates around a rotating shaft provided at an end thereof in a horizontal direction, and the rotating holding frame is a rotating holding frame of the rotating holding frame. A first outer peripheral wall portion constituting the outer peripheral wall and an elastic wall portion arranged to face the first outer peripheral wall portion via a first spacer in each of the four corner regions of the rotating holding frame. The card magazine and the magazine holder may be sandwiched between the first outer peripheral wall portion and the elastic wall portion in a state of being overlapped with each other. The magazine holding portion is a frame-shaped separable holding frame having a quadrangular shape that can be separated from the main body of the magazine holder and can cover the upper end portion of the second side wall body of the magazine holder. The separate type holding frame has a second outer peripheral wall portion constituting the outer peripheral wall of the separated type holding frame, and a facing wall portion arranged to face the second outer peripheral wall portion via a second spacer. And, the card magazine and the magazine holder may be sandwiched between the second outer peripheral wall portion and the facing wall portion in a state of being overlapped with each other.

Further, the magazine holder may be one in which the card magazine whose main body is made of soft plastic or paper is inserted.

Further, the card magazine has an easily openable portion in which the card magazine forms a first slit extending in the vertical direction on any of the first side walls, and the magazine holder forms the first slit. The second side wall corresponding to the first side wall has an opening second slit extending in the vertical direction, and when the card magazine is inserted into the magazine holder, the second side wall having the second slit. The first slit may be included in the inner region of the second slit when observed from the normal direction of the wall surface.

The card supply device of the present invention has a magazine holder and a card transfer mechanism that has a suction portion for sucking the card from the outside of the card magazine, and the suction portion can move in the vertical direction and the horizontal direction. Be prepared. Further, the card supply device is provided at the magazine holder, an arm extending from the outside of the card magazine to the card magazine through the second slit and the first slit, and the tip of the arm, and sucks the card. A card transfer mechanism may be provided, which has a suction portion for the suction portion and the suction portion can move in the vertical direction and the horizontal direction.

The card printer of the present invention is a printing unit that prints information on the card feeding device, a card transporting unit that transports the card supplied from the card feeding device, and the card that is transported by the card transporting unit. And.

According to the present invention, the card can be easily set in the card printer, and the card can be supplied to the card printer while suppressing the increase in size of the device.

It is a front view which shows typically the card printer of this embodiment. It is a perspective view of the back side of the card magazine of this embodiment. It is a perspective view of the front side of the magazine holder of this embodiment. It is a perspective view of the back side of the magazine holder of this embodiment. It is a perspective view of the back side of the magazine holder which stores the card magazine of this embodiment. It is a front view which shows typically the card supply device of this embodiment. It is a vertical sectional view schematically showing the card feeding device of this embodiment, and shows the AA sectional view of FIG. It is a vertical sectional view schematically showing the card feeding device of this embodiment, and shows the AA sectional view of FIG. It is a perspective view of the magazine holder which has the flap holding part of this embodiment. It is a perspective view of the magazine holder which has the flap holding part of this embodiment. It is a perspective view of the magazine holder which has the flap holding part of this embodiment. It is the top view of the magazine holder which has the flap holding part of this embodiment, and shows the state of FIG. 8C. It is a perspective view of the magazine holder which has the flap holding part of the 1st modification. It is a perspective view of the magazine holder which has the flap holding part of the 1st modification. It is a top view of the magazine holder which has the flap holding part of the 1st modification, and shows the state of FIG. 10B. It is a perspective view of the magazine holder which has the flap holding part of the 2nd modification. It is a perspective view of the magazine holder which has the flap holding part of the 2nd modification. It is a top view of the magazine holder which has the flap holding part of the 2nd modification, and shows the state of FIG. 12B. It is a perspective view of the magazine holder which has the magazine holding part of the 3rd modification, and shows the state which the card magazine is stored. It is a perspective view of the magazine holder which has the magazine holding part of the 3rd modification, and shows the state which the card magazine is stored. It is a vertical sectional view which shows a part of the magazine holder which has the magazine holding part of the 3rd modification, and shows the BB sectional view of FIG. 14B. It is a perspective view of the magazine holder which has the magazine holding part of the 4th modification, and shows the state which the card magazine is stored. It is a perspective view of the magazine holder which has the magazine holding part of the 4th modification, and shows the state which the card magazine is stored. It is a vertical sectional view which shows a part of the magazine holder which has the magazine holding part of the 4th modification, and shows the CC cross section of FIG. 16B.

Hereinafter, an embodiment of the present invention (hereinafter, referred to as “the present embodiment”) will be described with reference to the drawings.

First, the card printer 50 in which the card supply device 40 of the present embodiment is incorporated will be described.

FIG. 1 is a front view schematically showing the card printer 50 of the present embodiment.

In the following drawings including FIG. 1 and in the following description, for ease of understanding, the two directions orthogonal to each other in the horizontal plane are defined as the X direction and the Y direction, and are orthogonal to the vertical direction, that is, the X direction and the Y direction. Let the Z direction be the direction of movement. The X direction is the left-right direction in FIG. 1, the right direction is the + X direction, and the left direction is the −X direction. The Y direction is the front-back direction of the paper surface in FIG. 1, the front-to-back direction is the + Y direction, and the back-to-front direction is the −Y direction. The Z direction is the vertical direction in FIG. 1, the upper direction is the + Z direction, and the lower direction is the −Z direction. Further, in the following description, the Z direction may be referred to as a vertical direction or a vertical direction, and the in-plane direction of the XY plane may be referred to as a horizontal direction or a horizontal direction. Further, the front side of the card printer 50 in FIG. 1 is referred to as the front side, and the opposite back side is referred to as the back side.

The card printer 50 is, for example, a device capable of creating an IC card in which personal information of a card user is written, but even if it is used for creating other types of cards. Good.

As shown in FIG. 1, the card printer 50 inverts the card supply device 40 for storing and supplying the card 1, the card transfer unit 53 for transporting the card 1 in the card printer 50 by a belt conveyor or the like, and the card 1. It has a card reversing device 54, an information printing unit 55 that prints a face photograph, character information, and the like on the card 1, and a transparent protective layer imparting unit 56 that imparts a transparent protective layer to the card 1.

The card supply device 40 transfers the card storage device 20 for storing a plurality of cards 1 cut in a sheet shape in advance and the card 1 stored in the card storage device 20 to the card transfer unit 53 of the card printer 50. It has a card transfer mechanism 30 and. In the example shown in FIG. 1, the card supply device 40 has four card storage devices 20. The four card storage devices 20 store different types of cards.

The cards stored in the card storage device 20 are laminated with the side to be printed (for example, the side for recording a face photograph) facing down and the side not to be printed facing up. More specifically, the card 1 is composed of a support and an image receiving layer, and the card 1 is stocked with the support facing up and the image receiving layer facing down. The card transfer mechanism 30 takes out the cards 1 upward one by one from the selected card storage device 20 at a predetermined timing, and automatically supplies the cards 1 to the card transfer unit 53 of the card printer 50.

The card 1 taken out from the card storage device 20 is first placed on the card transfer unit 53 by the card transfer mechanism 30 with the non-printed side facing upward. After that, the card 1 is sent to the reversing device 54 by the card conveying unit 53, inverted by the card reversing device 54, and then supplied to the information printing unit 55. In the present embodiment, since the card 1 is printed from above in the information printing unit 55, the card reversing device 54 described above is provided.

The card 1 may be stocked with the side to be printed in the card storage device 20 facing upward, and in this case, the card reversing device 54 may not be provided. However, in order to suppress the occurrence of printing defects described later, it is preferable that the cards 1 are stocked with the side to be printed in the card storage device 20 facing downward.

The information printing unit 55 includes a sublimation printing unit 55a and a fusion printing unit 55b. The sublimation printing unit 55a is subjected to Y printing (yellow printing), M printing (magenta printing), C printing (cyan printing), OP printing (overprint printing), and the like while the card 1 is being moved. An image having a tone such as a face photograph of a card user is printed in a predetermined area of. The melt printing unit 55b prints authentication identification information such as its name and card issue date by thermal transfer using a thermal transfer sheet such as a character ribbon.

In the transparent protective layer imparting portion 56, a transfer foil cassette (not shown) is arranged, and a thermal transfer head (not shown) is arranged corresponding to the transfer foil cassette. Then, the transparent protective layer imparting portion 56 provides a transparent protective layer on the card 1.

Next, the card storage device 20 will be described.

As shown in FIG. 1, the card storage device 20 has a magazine holder 21 for storing the card magazine 10 and a holder mounting table 22 fixed to the card printer 50 on which the magazine holder 21 is mounted. .. The card magazine 10 is a card packaging container in which a plurality of cards 1 are stacked and stored in the vertical direction. The magazine holder 21 is detachably attached to the holder mounting base 22, and the card magazine 10 is stored in a predetermined position.

FIG. 2 is a perspective view of the back side of the card magazine 10 of the present embodiment.

The card magazine 10 has a bottomed tubular shape having a rectangular shape in a top view, that is, a square tubular shape, a magazine body 10B, a first opening 10A provided above the magazine body 10B, flaps 10C, 10D, and the like. It has insertion holes 10CA and 10DA. Further, the magazine body 10B has an easily openable portion 100 which is provided on the side wall portion on the back side and can be easily removed from the magazine body 10B.

The material of the card magazine 10 is not particularly limited, but is preferably made of resin, and more preferably made of plastic. In particular, the card magazine 10 molded from lightweight and foldable soft plastic can reduce the storage space and transportation cost of the card magazine 10 before and after use, as well as the disposal cost. The magazine holder 21 of the present embodiment is particularly suitable for storing the card magazine 10 molded from the soft plastic. Therefore, the card magazine 10 of the present invention is preferably made of soft plastic. Further, the magazine holder 21 of the present embodiment is also suitable for storing a paper card magazine such as textile paper or synthetic paper.

In this specification, the soft plastic is classified as a general-purpose plastic (generally a material having a heat resistant temperature of less than 100 ° C.) among the thermoplastic resins.

The card magazine 10 is provided with a first opening 10A that opens upward, and a plurality of cards 1 can be stacked and stored in the vertical direction from the first opening 10A in a state before being stored in the magazine holder 21. .. As shown in FIG. 2, the card magazine 10 has a magazine body 10B including the above-mentioned first opening 10A, and flaps 10C and 10D as bent portions connected to the peripheral edge of the first opening 10A so as to be bendable. are doing.

The two flaps 10C and 10D are in a positional relationship facing each other with the first opening 10A in between. In the example shown in FIG. 2, one flap 10C functions as a lid of the card magazine 10. In this case, the first opening 10A can be closed by folding the other flap 10D toward the first opening 10A and then folding the flap 10C that functions as a lid toward the first opening 10A. Further, in the card magazine 10 shown in FIG. 2, an easily openable portion 100 extending downward from the peripheral edge of the first opening 10A is formed in the magazine main body 10B.

The easily openable portion 100 is a portion or member that can be easily removed from the magazine body 10B, and when removed, forms a first slit 100A that opens to the back side and extends in the vertical direction. It is configured to open. In the present embodiment, the portion surrounded by the broken line L1 in FIG. 2 corresponds to the easily openable portion 100, and when the easily openable portion 100 is removed, the shape corresponding to the portion surrounded by the broken line L1. First slit 100A is formed.

In the card magazine 10 housed in the magazine holder 21 shown in FIG. 5, which will be described later, the easy-to-open portion 100 is removed, and the first slit 100A is formed. The first slit 100A extends downward from the first opening 10A in a long shape. The easy-to-open unit 100 may be removed before the card magazine 10 is stored in the magazine holder 21, but the card magazine 10 is easily loaded into the magazine holder 21 and is stored in the card magazine 10. Considering the fall prevention property of the card 1, it is preferable to store the card magazine 10 in the magazine holder 21 and then remove the card magazine 10.

The easy-to-open portion 100 in the present embodiment is formed by an area defined by a perforation located at the position of the broken line L1 on the card magazine 10. Here, as described above, the card magazine 10 is preferably made of resin, more preferably made of plastic. When the card magazine 10 is made of plastic, the perforation defining the easy-opening portion 100 is preferably a micro-perforation in consideration of facilitation of removal of the easy-opening portion 100, and specifically, 0. It is preferable that the perforations are formed so that slit-shaped penetrating portions of .25 mm or more and 0.35 mm or less and non-penetrating portions of 0.15 mm or more and 0.25 mm or less are alternately arranged in a line.

Further, in the present embodiment, the end portion of the easily openable portion 100 on the side opposite to the first opening 10A side is formed in a tapered triangular shape. In this case, by pulling the easy-opening portion 100 downward from the first opening 10A side, the easy-opening portion 100 can be removed by applying a force in only one direction downward, so that workability at the time of removal is improved. It can be improved, and it is possible to suppress an opening defect such that a portion other than the perforation is torn. The same effect can be obtained even if the shape of the end portion of the easily openable portion 100 is a semicircle or the like. Further, the first opening 10A side of the easy-to-open portion 100 may be R-shaped or tapered so as not to cut the hand at the corner after opening, and is guided to the portion where the perforation and the first opening 10A intersect. You may make a notch to do so.

The easy-to-open portion 100 of the present invention is not limited to the one formed by the region partitioned by the perforations, and may be a tape or the like adhered to the card magazine 10 so as to close the first slit 100A. Good. However, since the perforations can be formed without increasing the number of members, the easily openable portion 100 of the present invention is preferably formed by a region partitioned by the perforations.

As shown in FIG. 2, the magazine body 10B has a bottomed tubular shape with the first opening 10A facing upward. Based on such a state in which the first opening 10A faces upward, in the present embodiment, the rectangular floor portion in the top view of the magazine body 10B located opposite to the first opening 10A is referred to as the bottom floor portion 10E. A wall portion that rises from the bottom floor portion 10E and includes a first opening 10A at the tip thereof is referred to as a side wall portion 10F. Further, the side wall portion 10F on the front side, the side wall portion 10F on the back side, the side wall portion 10F on the left side surface side, and the side wall portion 10F on the right side surface side are the front side wall portion 10FF, the back side wall portion 10FB, the left side wall portion 10FL, respectively. It shall be called the right side wall portion 10FR. Further, the side wall portion 10F may be referred to as a side wall body, and each of the front side wall portion 10FF, the back side wall portion 10FB, the left side wall portion 10FL, and the right side wall portion 10FR constituting the side wall body may be referred to as side walls. In the following, the configuration of the card magazine 10 in this embodiment will be described in more detail.

The side wall portion 10F of the card magazine 10 is formed in a rectangular shape in a cross-sectional view, and the peripheral edge of the first opening 10A formed by the tip portion of the side wall portion 10F is a pair of long side portions and both ends of the pair of long side portions. It is composed of a pair of short sides that connect the two. The card 1 also has a rectangular shape, and when it is stored in the card magazine 10, it is stored in a state where its longitudinal direction is along the longitudinal direction of the side wall portion 10F of the magazine body 10B.

In the present embodiment, the easy-to-open portion 100 is provided on one of the pair of short side portions on the peripheral edge of the first opening 10A. Further, the flap 10C is connected to one of the pair of long side portions, and the flap 10D is connected to the other. That is, the card magazine 10 of the present embodiment has a flap 10D connected to the upper end portion of the left side wall portion 10FL and a flap 10C connected to the upper end portion of the right side wall portion 10FR.

Further, in the present embodiment, the insertion hole 10CA is provided in the portion of the flap 10C close to the peripheral edge of the first opening 10A, and the insertion hole 10DA is provided in the portion of the flap 10D close to the peripheral edge of the first opening 10A. Is provided. The shapes of the insertion holes 10CA and 10DA are not particularly limited, but in the present embodiment, the insertion holes 10CA and 10DA are each formed in a slit shape extending along the long side portion of the first opening 10A. As shown in FIG. 5 described later, protrusions 21C and 21D provided in the magazine holder 21 are inserted into the insertion holes 10CA and 10DA. The length of the insertion holes 10CA, 10DA in the longitudinal direction (that is, the Y direction) may be 20 mm or less in order to suppress damage starting from the insertion holes 10CA, 10DA when the card magazine 10 is dropped. Preferably, the length in the longitudinal direction (that is, the Y direction) is preferably 5 mm or more in consideration of the safety and strength of the shapes of the protrusions 21C and 21D provided on the magazine holder 21 and the clearance with the protrusions 21C and 21D. The length of the insertion holes 10CA and 10DA in the direction orthogonal to the longitudinal direction is preferably 2 mm or more and 4 mm or less.

As described above, the card magazine 10 of the present embodiment has flaps 10C and 10D, but the card magazine 10 of the present invention may not have flaps 10C and 10D. The card magazine 10 that does not have the flaps 10C and 10D also does not have the insertion holes 10CA and 10DA.

FIG. 3 is a perspective view of the front side of the magazine holder 21 of the present embodiment. FIG. 4 is a perspective view of the back side of the magazine holder 21 of the present embodiment. FIG. 5 is a perspective view of the back side of the magazine holder 21 that houses the card magazine 10 of the present embodiment.

The magazine holder 21 has a bottomed tubular shape having a rectangular shape when viewed from above, that is, a square tubular shape, a holder main body 21B, a second opening 21A provided above the holder main body 21B, and a side wall portion on the back side. It has a second slit 210A provided, protrusions 21C and 21D, and a flap holding portion 80 for holding flaps 10C and 10D of the card magazine 10.

The magazine holder 21 is provided with a second opening 21A opened above the magazine holder 21, and the card magazine 10 can be stored through the second opening 21A. When the magazine holder 21 houses the card magazine 10, the second opening 21A opens upward to expose the first opening 10A of the card magazine 10 to the outside. Further, the magazine holder 21 is provided with a second slit 210A that faces the first slit 100A or the easily openable portion 100 in a state where the card magazine 10 is stored, is open on the back side, and extends in the vertical direction. The second slit 210A extends downward from the second opening 21A in a long shape.

When the card magazine 10 from which the easily openable portion 100 has not been removed is stored in the magazine holder 21, in the present embodiment, the easily openable portion 100 can be removed through the second slit 210A. Here, the vertical length of the second slit 210A is equal to or greater than the vertical length of the first slit 100A and equal to or less than the vertical length of the surface of the magazine body 10B provided with the first slit 100A. The length of the second slit 210A in the left-right direction is equal to or greater than the length of the first slit 100A in the left-right direction and equal to or less than the length of the surface of the magazine body 10B provided with the first slit 100A in the left-right direction. .. That is, when the card magazine 10 is inserted into the magazine holder 21, the first slit 100A is included in the inner region of the second slit 210A in the rear view.

The length of the surface of the magazine body 10B provided with the first slit 100A is the dimension between the ends of the surface in the vertical direction when the surface is viewed while facing the surface. The left-right length of the surface of the main body 10B provided with the first slit 100A is the dimension between the ends of the surface in the left-right direction.

As a result, the worker can easily remove the easily openable portion 100 by passing his / her hand through the second slit 210A. Further, since the easy-to-open portion 100 is removed after the card magazine 10 is stored in the magazine holder 21, it is possible to effectively prevent the card 1 in the card magazine 10 from being soiled or scratched.

The magazine holder 21 protrudes from the peripheral edge of the holder body 21B including the second opening 21A and the second opening 21A, and is inserted into the insertion holes 10CA and 10DA of the card magazine 10 when the card magazine 10 is stored in the holder 21. It has the pair of protrusions 21C and 21D described above.

The magazine holder 21 can also be used with the second opening 21A facing upward in a state before the card magazine 10 is stored. At this time, the holder body 21B of the magazine holder 21 also has a bottomed tubular shape. Therefore, with respect to the magazine holder 21, the rectangular floor portion in the top view, which is located in the holder main body 21B facing the second opening 21A, is referred to as the bottom floor portion 21E, based on the state in which the second opening 21A faces upward. A wall portion that rises from the bottom floor portion 21E and has a second opening 21A at the tip thereof is referred to as a side wall portion 21F. Further, the side wall portion 21F on the front side, the side wall portion 21F on the back side, the side wall portion 21F on the left side surface side, and the side wall portion 21F on the right side surface side are the front side wall portion 21FF, the back side wall portion 21FB, the left side wall portion 21FL and, respectively. It shall be called the right side wall portion 21FR. Further, the side wall portion 10F may be referred to as a side wall body, and each of the front side wall portion 10FF, the back side wall portion 10FB, the left side wall portion 10FL, and the right side wall portion 10FR constituting the side wall body may be referred to as side walls.

The side wall portion 21F of the magazine holder 21 is formed in a rectangular shape that is one size larger than the side wall portion 10F of the card magazine 10 in cross-sectional view, and the peripheral edge of the second opening 21A formed by the tip portion of the side wall portion 21F is also a pair of lengths. It is composed of a side portion and a pair of short side portions connecting both ends of the pair of long side portions. Here, in the present embodiment, the state in which the card magazine 10 is stored in the magazine holder 21 with the first slit 100A or the easily openable portion 100 facing the second slit 210A is the normal storage direction. However, the card magazine 10 can be stored in the magazine holder 21 in an orientation opposite to the normal orientation, and as a result, a problem of erroneous loading may occur in the present embodiment.

Therefore, in the present embodiment, as shown in FIGS. 3 to 5, the pair of protrusions 21C and 21D described above are provided so as to face each other with a position deviated from the center of the second opening 21A. That is, in the present embodiment, one of the pair of protrusions 21C and 21D is provided on one of the pair of long side portions on the peripheral edge of the second opening 21A, and the other of the pair of protrusions 21C and 21D is provided. It is provided on the other side of the pair of long sides. In the illustrated example, protrusions 21C and 21D are provided on the upper ends of the left side wall portion 21FL and the right side wall portion 21FR of the magazine holder 21. The protrusions 21C and 21D are provided at positions deviated from the midpoint of the corresponding long side portion to the same side (in the illustrated example, positions deviated toward the back side). The pair of insertion holes 10CA and 10DA in the card magazine 10 are provided at positions where the pair of protrusions 21C and 21D can be inserted when the card magazine 10 is stored in the magazine holder 21 in the regular storage direction. ..

With the above configuration of the protrusions 21C and 21D, the problem of erroneous loading can be suppressed in the present embodiment, and by inserting the protrusions 21C and 21D into the insertion holes 10CA and 10DA, the card magazine 10 can be inserted into the magazine holder 21. Can be held stably. As a result, the displacement of the card magazine 10 in the magazine holder 21 is suppressed, so that the card 1 being transferred by the card transfer mechanism 30 or the card transfer mechanism 30 described later can be suppressed from coming into contact with the card magazine 10.

Further, the holder body 21B of the magazine holder 21 in the present embodiment has flaps 10C and 10D when the flaps 10C and 10D are bent to open the first opening 10A while the card magazine 10 is stored in the magazine holder 21. The flap holding portion 80 holds the flaps 10C and 10D along the outer wall surface of the left side wall portion 21FL and the right side wall portion 21FR of the magazine holder 21 so that the flaps 10C and 10D do not move to a position covering the first opening 10A.

Since the flap holding portions 80 hold the flaps 10C and 10D along the outer wall surface of the left side wall portion 21FL and the right side wall portion 21FR of the magazine holder 21, the flaps 10C and 10D of the card magazine 10 and the left side wall portion 10FL or the right side are held. The wall portion 10FR and the connection portion are also held so as to be linear, and as a result, the bending of the card magazine 10 housed in the magazine holder 21 is suppressed. Further, by holding the flaps 10C and 10D by the flap holding portion 80, it is possible to prevent the card being transferred by the card transfer mechanism 30 and the card transfer mechanism 30, which will be described later, from coming into contact with the flap. Further, since the flaps 10C and 10D are held by the flap holding portion 80, the occupied space of the card magazine 10 can be suppressed.

As described above, the card magazine 10 of the present invention may not have flaps 10C and 10D. The magazine holder 21 for accommodating the card magazine 10 having no flaps 10C and 10D does not have the protrusions 21C and 21D and the flap holding portion 80, and the upper end portion of the side wall portion 10F of the card magazine 10 and the magazine holder 21 It is conceivable that the magazine holding portion 90 is held so as to be overlapped with the upper end portion of the side wall portion 21F. The magazine holding portion 90 suppresses bending of the card magazine 10 housed in the magazine holder 21.

The flap holding portion 80 holds the flaps 10C and 10D, which form a part of the card magazine 10, along the outer wall surface of the left side wall portion 21FL and the right side wall portion 21FR of the magazine holder 21 to suppress the card magazine 10. .. Further, the magazine holding portion 90 holds down the card magazine 10 by holding the upper end portion of the side wall portion 10F of the card magazine 10 and the upper end portion of the side wall portion 21F of the magazine holder 21 in a superposed state. As described above, both the flap holding portion 80 and the magazine holding portion 90 hold down the card magazine 10. That is, the magazine holder 21 of the present invention has magazine holding portions 80 and 90 for holding the card magazine near the upper end portion of the side wall portion 21F of the magazine holder 21. The specific configurations of the flap holding portion 80 and the magazine holding portion 90 constituting the magazine holding portions 80 and 90 will be described later.

Further, the magazine holder 21 has an insertion portion 21G to be inserted into the holder mounting base 22 at the lower end portion of the holder main body 21B. In the present embodiment, the magazine holder 21 is attached to the card printer 50 by detachably attaching the insertion portion 21G to the holder mounting base 22 from above.

Subsequently, the card transfer mechanism 30 of the present embodiment will be described.

FIG. 6 is a front view schematically showing the card supply device 40 of the present embodiment. 7A and 7B are vertical cross-sectional views schematically showing the card supply device 40 of the present embodiment, and show the AA cross section of FIG.

The card transfer mechanism 30 selects one of the plurality of card storage devices 20 and extends from the outside of the magazine holder 21 of the card storage device 20 to the inside of the card magazine 10 through the second slit 210A and the first slit 100A. By moving upward while holding the card 1, the held card 1 is taken out from the first opening 10A and the second opening 21A, and then transferred to the card transfer unit 53.

The card transfer mechanism 30 is not particularly limited, but the card transfer mechanism 30 in the present embodiment has, for example, a holding suction unit 30A for holding the card 1 on the uppermost surface in the card magazine 10 by suction, and a holding suction unit 30. It has a moving stage 30B that moves 30A in the vertical direction and the horizontal direction.

As shown in FIGS. 6, 7A and 7B, the moving stage 30B is mounted on the base plate 301 fixed to the frame or housing of the card printer 50 so that the plate surfaces are parallel in the vertical direction, and on the base plate 301. It has a lateral rail 302 that is fixed and extends in the lateral direction, a vertical rail 303 that is movably supported by the lateral rail 302 and extends in the vertical direction, and a slider 304 that is movably supported by the vertical rail 303. are doing. In the present embodiment, the moving stage 30B is supported by a part of the card printer 50, but it may be supported by a part different from the card printer 50.

On the other hand, the holding and suction portion 30A is fixed to the arm 305 supported by the slider 304 and extending in a direction orthogonal to both the direction in which the lateral rail 302 extends and the direction in which the vertical rail 303 extends, and the tip of the arm 305. It has a supported support plate 306 and a suction portion 307 supported by the support plate 306 with the suction surface facing downward. With this configuration, the suction unit 307 can be moved in the vertical direction and the horizontal direction. The suction unit 307 is composed of, for example, a suction cup.

In such a card transfer mechanism 30, by moving the vertical rail 303 laterally on the lateral rail 302, as shown in FIG. 7A, the arm 305 of the holding and suction portion 30A has the first slit 100A and the second slit 100A. The holding and suction unit 30A is located above the slit 210A and the support plate 306 and the suction unit 307 are located above the first opening 10A of the card magazine 10 of the selected card storage device 20. To move. After that, as shown in FIG. 7B, by moving the slider 304 downward on the vertical rail 303, the card 1 on the uppermost surface in the card magazine 10 can be held by the suction portion 307. Here, since the surface of the card 1 that is attracted by the suction unit 307 is a surface that is not printed, the occurrence of printing defects is suppressed.

After that, by moving the slider 304 upward on the vertical rail 303, the card 1 held by the holding suction unit 30A can be taken out from the first opening 10A and the second opening 21A. Then, as shown in FIG. 6, by moving the vertical rail 303 laterally on the lateral rail 302, the card 1 held by the holding and suction unit 30A can be transferred to the card transport unit 53.

As described above, the card supply device 40 having the card supply device 40 and the card transfer mechanism 30 of the present embodiment extends from the outside of the card storage device 20 to the second slit 210A of the magazine holder 21 and the first slit 100A of the card magazine 10. By extending and moving upward while holding the card 1 stored in the card magazine 10, the held card 1 can be taken out from the card magazine 10. Therefore, the card 1 can be properly transferred to the card printer 50 without increasing the size of the card transfer mechanism 30 in the vertical direction. Therefore, the card 1 can be easily set in the card printer 50, and the card 1 can be supplied to the card printer 50 while suppressing the increase in size.

Reference numeral 31 shown in FIGS. 7A and 7B indicates an optical sensor. The optical sensor 31 is arranged in the holding / sucking unit 30A, and detects the presence / absence of the card 1 from the difference between the light received from the surface of the card 1 and the light received when the card 1 is lost. In the present embodiment, the bottom material 15 that diffusely reflects or absorbs light is provided inside the card magazine 10 in a manner different from that of the card 1, and the surface reflectance of the bottom material 15 is different from the surface reflectance of the card 1. The card 1 is laminated on the bottom material 15. The optical sensor 31 is an infrared sensor in this example, but is not particularly limited. The bottom material 15 can improve the detection accuracy when the optical sensor 31 detects the presence or absence of the card 1.

The bottom material 15 may be adapted to absorb light in a manner different from that of the card 1 by having an infrared absorber, or may be made larger than the card 1 by making the surface roughness larger than that of the card 1. May be designed to diffusely reflect light in different ways. Further, in the present embodiment, the side on which the card 1 is printed faces downward, that is, the bottom member 15 side, but the presence of the bottom member 15 causes contact between the bottom floor portion 10E of the card magazine 10 and the card 1. It is possible to suppress the occurrence of scratches due to. In the plastic card magazine 10, the bottom floor portion 10E is generally formed by folding four flaps, but in this case, unevenness occurs. Since such unevenness and contact with the card 1 are avoided by the bottom material 15, it is possible to prevent the card 1 from being scratched.

Next, the flap holding portion 80 of the magazine holder 21 of the present embodiment will be described.

8A, 8B and 8C are perspective views of the magazine holder 21 having the flap holding portion 80 of the present embodiment. FIG. 9 is a top view of the magazine holder 21 having the flap holding portion 80 of the present embodiment, and shows the state of FIG. 8C.

The flap holding portion 80 of the present embodiment is a plate-shaped rotating holding frame capable of covering the outer wall surface near the upper end portion of the left side wall portion 21FL, the right side wall portion 21FR, and the front side wall portion 21FF of the magazine holder 21. Has 81. The rotation holding frame 81 has a U-shape when viewed from above.

More specifically, the rotation holding frame 81 has a left member 81L arranged so as to face the left wall portion 21FL of the magazine holder 21 and a front end portion of the left member 81L (the left member 81L is the left wall portion). The front member 81F and the front member arranged so as to be connected to the front side end portion observed in the state of being arranged facing the 21FL and facing the front side wall portion 21FF of the magazine holder 21. It has a right member 81R which is connected to the right end portion of the 81F and is arranged so as to face the right wall portion 21FR of the magazine holder 21. The front member 81F is a connecting member that connects the left member 81L and the right member 81R. Further, in the illustrated example, the left member 81L, the right member 81R, and the front member 81F are integrally formed.

The rotation holding frame 81 is provided at both ends thereof, that is, at the rear end of the left member 81L and the right member 81R, and slightly to the rear side from the back end of each of the left wall portion 21FL and the right wall portion 21FR. It has a rotating shaft portion 81a fixed at a distant position. As shown in FIG. 9, the rotating shaft portion 81a has the rotating shaft portion 81a at a position slightly separated from the rear side end portions of the left side wall portion 21FL and the right side wall portion 21FR of the magazine holder 21. It is fixed to the rotating shaft fixing portion 81b formed so that it can be fixed. The rotation shaft portion 81a has a rotation shaft that is parallel to the outer wall surface of the back side wall portion 21FB and extends in the horizontal direction (that is, the X direction). The rotation holding frame 81 can rotate about the rotation shaft portion 81a.

That is, the rotation holding frame 81 is shown in FIG. 8C by rotating around the rotation shaft portion 81a as shown in FIG. 8B from the state shown in FIG. 8A on the back side of the magazine holder 21. , The outer wall surface near the upper ends of the left side wall portion 21FL, the right side wall portion 21FR, and the front side wall portion 21FF of the magazine holder 21 can be covered.

Further, the rotation holding frame 81 covers the left side wall portion 21FL of the magazine holder 21, the right side wall portion 21FR, and the outer wall surface near the upper end portion of the front side wall portion 21FF, and the left side wall portion 21FL and the right side wall of the magazine holder 21. The space 81s is arranged so as to exist between the outer wall surface of the portion 21FR and the plate surface facing the left side wall portion 21FL and the right side wall portion 21FR of the magazine holder 21 of the rotation holding frame 81. .. This space 81s is a storage space in which a part of the flaps 10C and 10D of the card magazine 10 bent along the outer wall surface of the left side wall portion 21FL and the right side wall portion 21FR of the magazine holder 21 is accommodated.

Further, the rotation holding frame 81 covers the front surface of the magazine holder 21 with the front member 81C covering the outer wall surface near the upper ends of the left side wall portion 21FL, the right side wall portion 21FR, and the front side wall portion 21FF of the magazine holder 21. It has a contact protruding portion 81c which is a protruding portion that contacts the side wall portion 21FF. Arrangement of the rotation holding frame 81 in a state where the rotation holding frame 81 covers the outer wall surface near the upper end portion of the left side wall portion 21FL, the right side wall portion 21FR, and the front side wall portion 21FF of the magazine holder 21 by the contact protrusion 81c. Becomes more stable. In the illustrated example, the contact protrusion 81c is formed by bending a plate material constituting the rotation holding frame 81.

The material of the rotation holding frame 81 is not particularly limited, but it is preferable to have a certain weight in order to stably hold the flaps 10C and 10D. Therefore, the material of the rotation holding frame 81 is preferably a metal such as steel or stainless steel.

When mounting the card magazine 10 on the magazine holder 21, first, the card magazine 10 is inserted into the magazine holder 21 in the state shown in FIG. 8A. Next, the flaps 10C and 10D of the card magazine 10 are bent so as to be along the outer wall surfaces of the left side wall portion 21FL and the right side wall portion 21FR of the magazine holder 21. Next, as shown in FIGS. 8B and 8C, the rotation holding frame 81 of the magazine holder 21 is rotated to move the rotation holding frame 81 to the left side wall portion 21FL, the right side wall portion 21FR, and the front surface of the magazine holder 21. The outer wall surface near the upper end of the side wall portion 21FF is covered. At this time, between the outer wall surface of the left side wall portion 21FL and the right side wall portion 21FR of the magazine holder 21 and the plate surface facing the left side wall portion 21FL and the right side wall portion 21FR of the magazine holder 21 of the rotation holding frame 81. A part of the flaps 10C and 10D of the card magazine 10 is stored in the space 81s. As a result, the flaps 10C and 10D of the card magazine 10 are held along the outer wall surface of the side wall portion of the magazine holder 21.

10A and 10B are perspective views of the magazine holder 21 having the flap holding portion 80 of the first modification. FIG. 11 is a top view of the magazine holder 21 having the flap holding portion 80 of the first modification, and shows the state of FIG. 10B.

The flap holding portion 80 of the first modification is a plate-shaped opening / closing holding plate 82L capable of covering the outer wall surface near the upper end portion of the left side wall portion 21FL of the magazine holder 21, and the upper end of the right side wall portion 21FR of the magazine holder 21. It has a plate-shaped opening / closing holding plate 82R that can cover the outer wall surface in the vicinity of the portion. In the illustrated example, the open / close holding plates 82L and 82R are rectangular plate-shaped members when observed from a direction perpendicular to the plate surface.

The opening / closing holding plates 82L and 82R have an opening / closing shaft portion 82a fixed to the vicinity of the left side wall portion 21FL or the right side wall portion 21FR at one end thereof. The opening / closing shaft portion 82a has a rotation shaft extending in the vertical direction (that is, the Z direction). The open / close holding plates 82L and 82R can rotate about the rotation shaft of the open / close shaft portion 82a.

That is, the open / close holding plates 82L and 82R rotate around the rotation axis of the open / close shaft portion 82a from the state on the back side of the magazine holder 21 shown in FIG. 10A, so that the magazine holder shown in FIG. 10B It is possible to cover the outer wall surface near the upper end of the left side wall portion 21FL and the right side wall portion 21FR of the 21.

Further, suction protrusions 82b capable of sucking the open / close holding plates 82L and 82R are provided near the front side ends of the left side wall portion 21FL and the right side wall portion 21FR of the magazine holder 21. The suction protrusion 82b is a long protrusion having long sides in the vertical direction. The method by which the suction protrusion 82b attracts the open / close holding plates 82L and 82R is not particularly limited, but a magnet is used in the illustrated example. Specifically, the opening / closing holding plates 82L and 82R are made of metal, and the suction protrusion 82b has a magnet.

The suction protrusion 82b is provided near the front end of the magazine holder 21 on the left side wall portion 21FL and the right side wall portion 21FR, and is on the side opposite to the opening / closing shaft portion 82a side of the opening / closing holding plates 82L and 82R. The suction protrusion 82b may be provided near the end of the magazine holder 21 so as to be sucked on the side wall 21F of the magazine holder 21.

Further, the open / close holding plates 82L and 82R are outside the left side wall portion 21FL and the right side wall portion 21FR of the magazine holder 21 in a state of covering the outer wall surface near the upper end portion of the left side wall portion 21FL and the right side wall portion 21FR of the magazine holder 21. The space 82s is arranged so as to exist between the wall surface and the plate surface facing the left side wall portion 21FL and the right side wall portion 21FR of the magazine holders 21 of the open / close holding plates 82L and 82R. This space is a storage space in which a part of the flaps 10C and 10D of the card magazine 10 bent along the outer wall surface of the left side wall portion 21FL and the right side wall portion 21FR of the magazine holder 21 is accommodated.

Further, the opening / closing holding plates 82L and 82R have a bent portion 82c in which the vicinity of the end portion of the opening / closing holding plate 82L, 82R opposite to the opening / closing shaft portion 82a side is bent in a direction away from the suction protrusion 82b. .. The bent portion 82c facilitates the opening and closing work of the opening / closing holding plates 82L and 82R.

The material of the opening / closing holding plates 82L and 82R is not particularly limited, but it is preferable to have a certain weight in order to stably hold the flaps 10C and 10D. Further, as a method of attracting the suction protrusion 82b, it is simple to use a magnet. Therefore, the material of the opening / closing holding plates 82L and 82R is preferably steel in whole or in part.

When mounting the card magazine 10 on the magazine holder 21, first, the card magazine 10 is inserted into the magazine holder 21 in the state shown in FIG. 10A. Next, the flaps 10C and 10D of the card magazine 10 are bent so as to be along the outer wall surfaces of the left side wall portion 21FL and the right side wall portion 21FR of the magazine holder 21. Next, as shown in FIG. 10B, the open / close holding plates 82L and 82R of the magazine holder 21 are rotated to be attracted to the suction protrusions 82b of the left wall portion 21FL and the right wall portion 21FR of the magazine holder 21 to hold the open / close. The plates 82L and 82R are in a state of covering the outer wall surface near the upper end portion of the left side wall portion 21FL and the right side wall portion 21FR of the magazine holder 21. At this time, between the outer wall surface of the left side wall portion 21FL and the right side wall portion 21FR of the magazine holder 21 and the plate surface facing the left side wall portion 21FL and the right side wall portion 21FR of the magazine holder 21 of the open / close holding plates 82L and 82R. A part of the flaps 10C and 10D of the card magazine 10 is stored in the space 82s. As a result, the flaps 10C and 10D of the card magazine 10 are held along the outer wall surfaces of the left side wall portion 21FL and the right side wall portion 21FR of the magazine holder 21.

The opening / closing holding plates 82L and 82R of the first modification have a rotating shaft portion 82a fixed near the left side wall portion 21FL and the right side wall portion 21FR of the magazine holder 21. The opening / closing holding plates 82L and 82R of the present invention may have a rotating shaft portion 82a fixed near the front side end portion of the left side wall portion 21FL and the right side wall portion 21FR of the magazine holder.

12A and 12B are perspective views of the magazine holder 21 having the flap holding portion 80 of the second modification. FIG. 13 is a top view of the magazine holder 21 having the flap holding portion 80 of the second modification, and shows the state of FIG. 12B.

The flap holding portion 80 of the second modification is a plate-shaped slide holding frame capable of covering the outer wall surface near the upper end portion of the left side wall portion 21FL, the right side wall portion 21FR, and the front side wall portion 21FF of the magazine holder 21. Has 83. The slide holding frame 83 has a U-shape when viewed from above.

More specifically, the slide holding frame 83 is connected to the left member 83L arranged to face the left wall portion 21FL of the magazine holder 21 and the front side end portion of the left member 83L, and is connected to the front side wall of the magazine holder 21. It has a front member 83F arranged to face the portion 21FF, and a right member 83R connected to the right end portion of the front member 83F and arranged to face the right wall portion 21FR of the magazine holder 21. The front member 82F is a connecting member that connects the left member 82L and the right member 82R. Further, in the illustrated example, the left member 82L, the right member 82R, and the front member 82F are integrally formed.

The slide holding frame 83 has a guide hole portion 83a, which is a long hole having a long side in the direction from the front side to the back side (that is, the Y direction), in each of the left member 83L and the right member 83R. There is. On the outer wall surface near the upper end of the front side wall portion 21FF of the magazine holder 21, a long guide protrusion 83b having long sides in the left-right direction is arranged.

The left end portion of the guide protrusion 83b projects to the left side of the outer wall surface of the left side wall portion 21FL of the magazine holder 21. Similarly, the right end portion of the guide protrusion 83b projects to the right side of the outer wall surface of the right side wall portion 21FR of the magazine holder 21. Then, the portions of the guide protrusion 83b protruding from the outer wall surface of the left wall portion 21FL and the right side wall portion 21FR of the magazine holder 21 are the guide hole portions of the left member 83L and the right member 83R of the slide holding frame 83, respectively. It is housed by being inserted into 83a.

The guide hole portion 83a and the guide protrusion portion 83b allow the slide holding frame 83 to slide and move from the front side to the back side. Further, the length of the guide protrusion 83b in the direction from the front side to the back side is set to be larger than the length in the vertical direction of the guide hole portion 83a. As a result, the slide holding frame 83 is prevented from rotating about the guide protrusion 83b as an axis, and can be horizontally moved while maintaining the posture.

That is, the slide holding frame 83 slides and moves from the state shown in FIG. 12A in which the slide holding frame 83 is retracted from the outer wall surface near the upper end portion of the left side wall portion 21FL or the right side wall portion 21FR of the magazine holder 21. By doing so, it is possible to cover the outer wall surface near the upper end portion of the left side wall portion 21FL and the right side wall portion 21FR of the magazine holder 21, as shown in FIG. 12B.

Further, the slide holding frame 83 covers the outer wall surface of the magazine holder 21 near the upper ends of the left side wall portion 21FL and the right side wall portion 21FR, and the slide holding frame 83 and the outer wall surface of the left side wall portion 21FL and the right side wall portion 21FR of the magazine holder 21. , The left member 83L of the slide holding frame 83 and the plate surface of the magazine holder 21 of the right member 83R facing the left wall portion 21FL and the right side wall portion 21FR are arranged so that a space 82s exists between them. There is. This space is a storage space in which a part of the flaps 10C and 10D of the card magazine 10 bent along the outer wall surface of the left side wall portion 21FL and the right side wall portion 21FR of the magazine holder 21 is accommodated.

The material of the slide holding frame 83 is not particularly limited, but it is preferable to have a certain weight in order to stably hold the flaps 10C and 10D. Therefore, the material of the opening / closing holding plates 82L and 82R is preferably a metal such as steel or stainless steel.

When mounting the card magazine 10 on the magazine holder 21, first, the card magazine 10 is inserted into the magazine holder 21 in the state shown in FIG. 12A. Next, the flaps 10C and 10D of the card magazine 10 are bent so as to be along the outer wall surfaces of the left side wall portion 21FL and the right side wall portion 21FR of the magazine holder 21. Next, as shown in FIG. 12B, the slide holding frame of the magazine holder 21 is slid from the front side to the back side, and the left member 83L and the right member 83R of the slide holding frame 83 are moved to the left wall of the magazine holder 21. The outer wall surface near the upper end of the portion 21FL and the right side wall portion 21FR is covered. At this time, the outer wall surface of the left side wall portion 21FL and the right side wall portion 21FR of the magazine holder 21 faces the left side wall portion 21FL and the right side wall portion 21FR of the magazine holder 21 of the left member 83L and the right member 83R of the slide holding frame 83. A part of the flaps 10C and 10D of the card magazine 10 is stored in the space 82s between the plate surface and the plate surface. As a result, the flaps 10C and 10D of the card magazine 10 are held along the outer wall surfaces of the left side wall portion 21FL and the right side wall portion 21FR of the magazine holder 21.

The guide protrusion 83b may be detachably fixed to the magazine holder 21. For example, it is conceivable to use a guide protrusion 23b having a magnet to make the guide protrusion 83b removable from the magazine holder 21. With such a configuration, when the card magazine 10 is mounted on the magazine holder 21, the slide holding frame 83 can be fitted into the outer wall surface near the upper end portion of the magazine holder 21 from the outside of the magazine holder 21.

14A and 14B are perspective views of the magazine holder 21 having the magazine holding portion 90 of the third modification, and show a state in which the card magazine 10 is housed. FIG. 15 is a vertical cross-sectional view showing a part of the magazine holder 21 having the magazine holding portion 90 of the third modification, and shows the BB cross section of FIG. 14B.

The magazine holder 21 having the magazine holding portion 90 of the third modification is for accommodating the card magazine 10 having no flaps 10C and 10D. Therefore, the magazine holder 21 of the third modification does not have protrusions 21C and 21D on the upper ends of the left side wall portion 21FL and the right side wall portion 21FR, and the upper end portion of the side wall portion 10F of the card magazine 10 and the magazine holder 21. It has a magazine holding portion 90 that holds the side wall portion 21F in a state of being overlapped with the upper end portion.

The magazine holding portion 90 of the third modification has a frame-shaped rotating holding frame 91 that can cover the upper end portion of the side wall portion 21F of the magazine holder 21. The rotating holding frame 91 has a rectangular shape having a cutout portion in a top view, and has an L-shaped cross-sectional shape.

More specifically, the rotating holding frame 91 has a back left member 91BL arranged so as to face the left side region of the second slit 210A at the upper end of the back side wall portion 21FB, and a left end portion of the back left member 91BL. When the left member 91L is arranged so as to face the upper end of the left wall portion 21FL and the front end portion of the left member 91L (when the left member 91L is arranged to face the left wall portion 21FL). The front member 91F, which is connected to the front end and is arranged so as to face the upper end of the front side wall 21FF, and the right end of the front member 91F, which is connected to the right end of the right wall 21FR. The right member 91R arranged so as to face the upper end portion and the back side end portion of the right member 91R can be connected to face the area on the right side of the second slit 210A at the upper end portion of the back side wall portion 21FB of the magazine holder 21. It has a back right member 91BR arranged in such a manner. In the illustrated example, the rear left member 91BL, the left member 91L, the front member 91F, the right member 91R, and the rear right member 91BR are integrally formed.

The rotating holding frame 91 has a rotating shaft portion 91a fixed to the rear left member 91BL and the rear right member 91BR in the right and left regions of the second slit 210A at the upper end of the rear side wall portion 21FB, respectively. ing. The rotation shaft portion 91a has a rotation shaft extending parallel to the wall surface of the back side wall portion of the magazine holder 21 and extending in the horizontal direction (that is, the X direction), and the rotation holding frame 91 has the rotation shaft. It can rotate as a center.

That is, the rotation holding frame 91 rotates about the rotation shaft portion 91a from the state on the back side of the magazine holder 21 shown in FIG. 14A, thereby rotating the side wall portion of the magazine holder 21 shown in FIG. 14B. It is possible to cover the upper end of the 21F.

Further, as shown in FIG. 14A, the rotary holding frame 91 has an outer peripheral wall portion 91b, a contact surface portion 91c, and an elastic wall portion 91d.

The outer peripheral wall portion 91b is a wall portion that constitutes the outer peripheral wall of the rotating holding frame 91. In the contact surface portion 91c, when the rotary holding frame 91 covers the upper end portion of the side wall portion 21F of the magazine holder 21, the upper end portion of the side wall portion 21F of the magazine holder 21 or the side wall portion 10F of the card magazine 10 is formed. It is a surface portion that comes into contact with the surface, and is arranged inside the outer peripheral wall portion 91b. The contact surface portion 91c also serves as a spacer for providing a space between the outer peripheral wall portion 91b and the elastic wall portion 91d.

The elastic wall portion 91d is a wall portion that can be elastically deformed when the rotary holding frame 91 sandwiches the upper end portion of the side wall portion 21F of the magazine holder 21 and the upper end portion of the side wall portion 10F of the card magazine 10. , Four corner regions of the rotating holding frame 91 (that is, a connecting portion between the rear left member 91BL and the left member 91L, a connecting portion between the left member 91L and the front member 91F, and a connecting portion between the front member 91F and the right member 91R. , And the connection portion between the right member 91R and the back right member 91BR), which are arranged so as to face the inner wall surface of the outer peripheral wall portion 91b with the contact surface portion 91c interposed therebetween.

When the rotary holding frame 91 covers the upper end of the side wall 21F of the magazine holder 21, as shown in FIG. 15, the upper end of the side wall 21F of the magazine holder 21 and the side wall 10F of the card magazine 10 , In contact with the contact surface portion 91c of the rotary holding frame 91, and accommodated in the space between the outer peripheral wall portion 91b and the elastic wall portion 91d of the rotary holding frame 91 in the four corner regions of the rotary holding frame 91. Will be done. At this time, the side wall portion 21F of the magazine holder 21 is suppressed by the elastic wall portion 91d to the side wall portion 10F of the card magazine 10. In this way, the rotary holding frame 91 is held in a state where the upper end portion of the side wall portion 10F of the card magazine 10 and the side wall portion 21F of the magazine holder 21 are overlapped with each other.

Although the outer peripheral wall portion 91b and the contact surface portion 91c are integrally formed in the illustrated example, they may be formed of separate members. The material of the outer peripheral wall portion 91b and the contact surface portion 91c is not particularly limited, but it is preferable to have a certain weight in order to stably hold the upper end portion of the side wall portion of the magazine holder 21. Therefore, the material of the outer peripheral wall portion 91b and the contact surface portion 91c is preferably a metal such as steel or stainless steel. The material of the elastic wall portion 91d is not particularly limited, and examples thereof include rubber and silicon resin.

When mounting the card magazine 10 on the magazine holder 21, first, the card magazine 10 is inserted into the magazine holder 21 in the state shown in FIG. 14A. Next, as shown in FIGS. 14B and 15, the rotating holding frame 91 of the magazine holder 21 is rotated so that the rotating holding frame 91 covers the upper end of the side wall portion 21F of the magazine holder 21. .. At this time, the upper end portion of the side wall portion 21F of the magazine holder 21 and the side wall portion 10F of the card magazine 10 abuts on the contact surface portion 91c of the rotary holding frame 91, and in the four corner regions of the rotary holding frame 91, It is accommodated in the space between the outer peripheral wall portion 91b and the elastic wall portion 91d of the rotary holding frame 91. As a result, the upper end of the side wall portion 10F of the card magazine 10 is held down by the side wall portion 21F of the magazine holder 21.

The rotation holding frame 91 of the third modification is fixed to the back left member 91BL and the back right member 91BR in the right and left regions of the second slit 210A at the upper end of the back side wall portion 21FB, respectively. Although it has a moving shaft portion 91a, the rotating holding frame 91 of the present invention may have a rotating shaft portion fixed to the upper end portion of the front side wall portion 21FF on the front member 91F. However, from the viewpoint of the stability of the rotating holding frame 91, the rotating holding frame 91 is attached to the back left member 91BL and the back right member 91BR, respectively, as in the third modification, at the upper end of the back side wall portion 21FB. It is preferable to have the rotating shaft portion 91a fixed to the right and left regions of the second slit 210A.

16A and 16B are perspective views of the magazine holder 21 having the magazine holding portion 90 of the fourth modification, and show a state in which the card magazine 10 is housed. FIG. 17 is a vertical cross-sectional view showing a part of the magazine holder 21 having the magazine holding portion 90 of the fourth modification, and shows the CC cross section of FIG. 16B.

Similar to the third modification, the magazine holder 21 having the magazine holding portion 90 of the fourth modification also stores the card magazine 10 having no flaps 10C and 10D, and the left wall portion 21FL and the right wall portion A magazine holding portion 90 that holds the upper end portion of the side wall portion 10F of the card magazine 10 and the upper end portion of the side wall portion 21F of the magazine holder 21 in a state of being overlapped with each other without having protrusions 21C and 21D on the upper end portion of the 21FR. Have.

The magazine holding portion 90 of the fourth modification has a frame-shaped separable holding frame 92 that can cover the upper end portion of the side wall portion 21F of the magazine holder 21. The separable holding frame 92 has a rectangular shape having a cutout portion in a top view, has an inverted U-shaped cross-sectional shape, and is configured as a member separated from the holder main body 21B of the magazine holder 21.

More specifically, the separate type holding frame 92 includes a back left member 92BL arranged so as to face the left side region of the second slit 210A at the upper end of the back side wall portion 21FB, and a left end portion of the back left member 92BL. When the left member 92L is arranged so as to face the upper end of the left wall portion 21FL and the front end portion of the left member 92L (when the left member 92L is arranged to face the left wall portion 21FL). The front member 92F, which is connected to the front end portion; the same applies hereinafter) and is arranged so as to face the upper end portion of the front side wall portion 21FF, and the right end portion of the front member 92F, which is connected to the right end portion 21FR. The right member 92R arranged so as to face the upper end portion is connected to the back side end portion of the right member 92R, and is arranged so as to face the area on the right side of the second slit 210A at the upper end portion of the back side wall portion 21FB. It has a back right member 92BR. In the illustrated example, the back left member 92BL, the left member 92L, the front member 92F, the right member 92R, and the back right member 92BR are integrally formed.

That is, the separable holding frame 92 covers the upper end of the side wall portion 21F of the magazine holder 21 as shown in FIG. 16B by moving downward from the state of being above the magazine holder 21 shown in FIG. 16A. Can be

Further, as shown in FIG. 17, the separate type holding frame 92 has an outer peripheral wall portion 92b, a contact surface portion 92c, and an facing wall portion 92d. The outer peripheral wall portion 92b is a wall portion that constitutes the outer peripheral wall of the separable holding frame 92. In the contact surface portion 92c, when the separable holding frame 92 covers the upper end portion of the side wall portion 21F of the magazine holder 21, the upper end portion of the side wall portion 21F of the magazine holder 21 or the side wall portion 10F of the card magazine 10 is formed. It is a surface portion that comes into contact with the surface, and is arranged inside the outer peripheral wall portion 91b. The facing wall portion 92d is a wall portion arranged so as to face the inner wall surface of the outer peripheral wall portion 91b. The contact surface portion 92c also serves as a spacer for providing a space between the outer peripheral wall portion 92b and the facing wall portion 92d.

In the illustrated example, the outer peripheral wall portion 92b, the contact surface portion 92c, and the facing wall portion are integrally formed, and the separable holding frame 92 is the upper end portion of the side wall portion 21F of the magazine holder 21 and the card magazine 10. When the upper end portion of the side wall portion 10F of the above is sandwiched, elastic deformation can be performed.

When the separable holding frame 92 covers the upper end of the side wall 21F of the magazine holder 21, as shown in FIG. 17, the upper end of the side wall 21F of the magazine holder 21 and the side wall 10F of the card magazine 10 The separation type holding frame 92 comes into contact with the contact surface portion 92c and is accommodated in the space between the outer peripheral wall portion 92b and the facing wall portion 92d of the separation type holding frame 92. At this time, the side wall portion 21F of the magazine holder 21 is suppressed by the side wall portion 10F of the card magazine 10 by the facing wall portion 92d. In this way, the separate type holding frame 92 is held in a state where the upper end portion of the side wall portion 10F of the card magazine 10 and the side wall portion 21F of the magazine holder 21 are overlapped.

Further, the separate type holding frame 92 has an inclined portion 92e that rises inward on the facing wall portion 92d. The inclined portion 92e prevents the card 1 from being caught in the separable holding frame 92 when the card is transferred upward by the card transfer mechanism 30.

The outer peripheral wall portion 92b, the contact surface portion 92c, and the facing wall portion 92d are integrally formed in the illustrated example, but may be composed of separate members. The materials of the outer peripheral wall portion 92b, the contact surface portion 92c, and the facing wall portion 92d are not particularly limited, but are preferably having a certain degree of elasticity in order to stably hold the upper end portion of the side wall portion 10F of the magazine holder 21. .. As a material for the outer peripheral wall portion 92b, the contact surface portion 92c, and the facing wall portion 92d, for example, rubber or silicon resin can be considered.

When mounting the card magazine 10 on the magazine holder 21, first, the card magazine 10 is inserted into the magazine holder 21. Next, as shown in FIGS. 16A, 16B and 17, the separable holding frame 92 is moved from above to below the magazine holder 21, and the separated holding frame 92 is moved to the upper end of the side wall portion 21F of the magazine holder 21. The part is covered. At this time, the upper end portion of the side wall portion 21F of the magazine holder 21 and the side wall portion 10F of the card magazine 10 abuts on the contact surface portion 92c of the separate type holding frame 92 and faces the outer peripheral wall portion 92b of the separate type holding frame 92. It is accommodated in the space between the wall portion 92d. As a result, the upper end of the side wall portion 10F of the card magazine 10 is held down by the side wall portion 21F of the magazine holder 21.

As described above, according to the card printer of the present embodiment, the card 1 can be easily set in the card printer 50, and the card 1 can be supplied to the card printer 50 while suppressing the increase in size of the apparatus. It will be possible. Further, according to the magazine holding portion of the magazine holder 21 of the present embodiment, the bending of the card magazine 10 housed in the magazine holder 21 is suppressed.

Although the embodiments of the present invention have been described above, the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiments, and various modifications can be made in each of the embodiments.

The main body of the card magazine 10 and the magazine holder 21 of the present invention has a rectangular shape in the top view, but the card magazine 10 and the magazine holder 21 of the present invention are not limited to this and have a rectangular shape in the top view. It may have.

1 card 10 card magazine 10A 1st opening 10B magazine body 10C flap (lid) (2nd flap)
10CA insertion hole 10D flap (1st flap)
10DA insertion hole 10E bottom floor (first bottom floor)
10F side wall (first side wall)
10FF front side wall (first side wall)
10FB back side wall (first side wall)
10FL left side wall (first side wall)
10FR right side wall (first side wall)
100 Easy-to-open part 100A 1st slit 15 Bottom material 20 Card storage device 21 Magazine holder 21A 2nd opening 21B Holder body 21C Protrusion 21D Protrusion 21E Bottom floor (2nd bottom floor)
21F side wall (second side wall)
21FF front side wall (second side wall)
21FB back side wall (second side wall)
21FL left side wall (second side wall)
21FR right side wall (second side wall)
21G Insertion part 210A Second slit 22 Holder mounting stand 30 Card transfer mechanism 30A Holding suction part 305 Arm 306 Support plate 307 Suction part 30B Moving stage 301 Base plate 302 Horizontal rail 303 Vertical rail 304 Slider 31 Optical sensor 40 Card supply device 50 Card printer 53 Card carrier 54 Card reversing device 55 Information printing unit 55a Sublimation printing unit 55b Melt printing unit 56 Transparent protective layer addition unit 80, 90 Magazine holding unit 80 Flap holding unit 81 Rotating holding frame 81F Front member (first connection) Element)
81L left member (first rotating member)
81R Right member (second rotating member)
81a Rotating shaft part 81b Rotating shaft fixing part 81c Contact protruding part 81s Space 82L, 82R Opening / closing holding plate 82a Opening / closing shaft part 82b Adsorption protrusion 82c Bent part 82s Space 83 Slide holding frame 83F Front member (second connecting member) )
83L left member (first slide frame)
83R Right member (2nd slide frame)
83a Guide hole 83b Guide protrusion 83s Space 90 Magazine holding part 91 Rotating holding frame 91F Front member 91BL Back left member 91BR Back right member 91L Left member 91R Right member 91a Rotating shaft part 91b Outer wall part 91c Contact surface part ( 1st spacer)
91d Elastic wall part 92 Separate type holding frame 92F Front member 92BL Back left member 92BR Back right member 92L Left member 92R Right member 92b Outer wall part 92c Contact surface part (second spacer)
92d Opposing wall

Claims (13)

A magazine incorporated into a card printer into which a card magazine having a square tubular shape including a first bottom floor portion and a first side wall body having four first side walls rising from the first bottom floor portion is inserted. It's a holder
It has a square tubular shape including a second bottom floor portion and a second side wall body including four second side walls rising from the second bottom floor portion.
A magazine holding portion for holding the card magazine is provided at the upper end of the magazine holder.
Magazine holder. The magazine holder according to claim 1.
A first flap and a second flap are provided on the pair of opposite first side walls of the card magazine, respectively.
The magazine holding portion is provided on the magazine holder and holds the first flap and the second flap along the outer wall surface of the second side wall of the magazine holder between the corresponding second side wall. Has a holding part,
Magazine holder. The magazine holder according to claim 2.
The flap holding portion has a U-shaped rotation holding frame that rotates around a horizontally extending rotation shaft provided at its end.
The rotation holding frame includes a first rotating member that holds the first flap, a second rotating member that holds the second flap, and the first rotating member and the second rotating member. It has a first connecting member to be connected,
Magazine holder. The magazine holder according to claim 2.
The flap holding portion comprises a pair of open / close holding plates provided on the magazine holder so as to be rotatable around a rotation shaft extending in the vertical direction provided at the end thereof.
One opening / closing holding plate holds the first flap, and the other opening / closing holding plate holds the second flap.
Magazine holder. The magazine holder according to claim 2.
The flap holding portion has a U-shaped slide holding frame provided so as to be slidable in the horizontal direction with respect to the outer wall surface of the second side wall body of the magazine holder.
The slide holding frame is a second connection that connects a first slide member that holds the first flap, a second slide member that holds the second flap, and the first slide member and the second slide member. With a member,
Magazine holder. The magazine holder according to claim 1.
The magazine holding portion has a magazine holding portion that holds the upper end portion of the first side wall body of the card magazine and the upper end portion of the second side wall body of the magazine holder in a superposed state.
Magazine holder. The magazine holder according to claim 6.
The magazine holding portion has a quadrangular rotating holding frame that rotates about a rotation shaft extending in the horizontal direction provided at the end thereof.
The rotating holding frame includes the first outer peripheral wall portion forming the outer peripheral wall of the rotating holding frame and the first outer peripheral wall portion via a first spacer in each of the four corner regions of the rotating holding frame. Has an elastic wall portion arranged to face the
The card magazine and the magazine holder are sandwiched between the first outer peripheral wall portion and the elastic wall portion in a state of being superposed.
Magazine holder. The magazine holder according to claim 6.
The magazine holding portion is a frame-shaped separable holding frame having a quadrangular shape that can be separated from the main body of the magazine holder and can cover the upper end portion of the second side wall body of the magazine holder. Have and
The separate type holding frame includes a second outer peripheral wall portion constituting the outer peripheral wall of the separated type holding frame, and a facing wall portion arranged so as to face the second outer peripheral wall portion via a second spacer. Have and
The card magazine and the magazine holder are sandwiched between the second outer peripheral wall portion and the facing wall portion in a state of being overlapped with each other.
Magazine holder. The magazine holder according to any one of claims 1 to 8.
A magazine holder into which the card magazine whose main body is made of soft plastic or paper is inserted. The magazine holder according to any one of claims 1 to 9.
The card magazine has an easily openable portion that forms a first slit extending in the vertical direction on any of the first side walls.
The magazine holder has a second slit extending in the vertical direction on the second side wall corresponding to the first side wall on which the first slit is formed.
When the card magazine is inserted into the magazine holder, the first slit is included in the inner region of the second slit when observed from the normal direction of the wall surface of the second side wall having the second slit. ,
Magazine holder. The magazine holder according to any one of claims 1 to 9,
A card transfer mechanism having a suction portion for sucking a card from the outside of the card magazine and allowing the suction portion to move in the vertical direction and the horizontal direction is provided.
Card feeder. The magazine holder according to claim 10 and
An arm extending from the outside of the card magazine to the card magazine through the second slit and the first slit, and a suction portion provided at the tip of the arm to suck the card, and the suction portion is provided in the vertical direction and Equipped with a card transfer mechanism that can move horizontally,
Card feeder. The card supply device according to claim 11 or 12,
A card transfer unit that conveys the card supplied from the card supply device, and
A printing unit that prints information on the card transported by the card transport unit is provided.
Card printer.