JP2944584B2 - Card guide mechanism - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

The present invention relates to a card guide mechanism,
In particular, the present invention relates to a card guide mechanism of a card processing device that records and reproduces magnetic data on a card-shaped magnetic recording medium and prints a part of the magnetic recording content on the back surface.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art As a prior art, for example,
There is a magnetic card reader / writer disclosed in JP-A-7-134753.

A conventional card guide mechanism will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 6 is a sectional view showing a first conventional example. In the card guide mechanism shown in FIG. 6, the side portions of the card-shaped magnetic recording medium are guided by side frames 18 and 19 formed of a metal material. The cover 22 and the card base 23 are formed of a plastic material. Feed rollers 20 and 21 are disposed inside the side frames 18 and 19. The feed rollers 20 and 21 are driven and rotated by a drive system such as a motor, a pulley, and a belt. Therefore, the card-shaped magnetic recording medium is reciprocated by the feed rollers 20 and 21 without being skewed by being guided on both sides between the card-shaped magnetic recording medium, and recording and reproduction of magnetic data is performed.

FIG. 7 is a sectional view showing a second conventional example. The card guide mechanism shown in FIG. 7 is provided on one side of the transport path instead of the side frame shown in FIG. 6, and has a U-shaped fixing for guiding one side of the card-shaped magnetic recording medium 1. It has a guide 26 and a U-shaped movable guide 27 urged by a spring material for guiding the other side. Therefore, the card-shaped magnetic recording medium 1 is guided by the fixed guide 26 and the movable guide 27 on its side without skewing, and is driven by a drive system such as a motor, a pulley, and a belt to rotate. , 25 to reciprocate to perform recording and reproduction of magnetic data.

In the above technique, the card-shaped magnetic recording medium 1
Only a magnetic head that records magnetic data on a card is smaller than a card guide mechanism that guides the side of the card-shaped magnetic recording medium 1.

[0007]

In the above-mentioned conventional card guide mechanism, a magnetic head or print head for recording magnetic data on a card-like magnetic recording medium is a card which guides a side portion of the card-like magnetic recording medium. Since only a narrower than the guide mechanism can be used, recording or printing cannot be performed on the entire card width of the card-shaped magnetic recording medium, so that there is a drawback that the card surface utilization efficiency is poor.

[0008]

According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a card guide mechanism for conveying a card-shaped recording medium having a thermosensitive coloring layer or a thermoreversible thermosensitive recording layer and a magnetic recording layer along a conveying path. A frame portion for guiding a side portion of the card-shaped recording medium along the transport path; magnetic data recording / reproducing head on the card-shaped recording medium; and printing for recording characters and image data on the card-shaped recording medium. And a card guide provided below the print head and formed of a spring member for guiding a side portion of the card-shaped recording medium.

A card guide mechanism according to a second aspect of the present invention is the card guide mechanism according to the first aspect, wherein a card guide for guiding a side portion of the card-shaped recording medium presses the print head against a printing surface of the card-shaped recording medium to perform printing. When the print head is pressed from above, the print head follows while guiding the side of the card-shaped recording medium while bending downward.

A card guide mechanism according to a third aspect of the present invention is the card guide mechanism according to the first aspect, wherein the print head retreats upward from the card-shaped recording medium in the card guide mechanism that follows while flexing downward by the pressing operation of the print head. Then, the card guide mechanism restores the initial mounting state by a spring force while guiding the side of the card-shaped recording medium.

[0011] In a card guide mechanism according to a fourth aspect of the present invention, in the first aspect, the print head is wider than the width of the card-shaped recording medium and the transport path.

According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, in the card guide mechanism according to the first aspect, the frame portion for guiding a side portion of the card-shaped recording medium does not come into contact with the frame portion when the print head is pressed down. A notch was formed in the frame to allow the print head to escape.

According to a sixth aspect of the present invention, there is provided a card guide mechanism comprising first and second frames for guiding a side portion of a card-shaped magnetic recording medium, and a first frame disposed between the first and second frames. A fourth feed roller, a platen roller provided between the first and second feed rollers, and the third and fourth feed rollers, and a print head provided above the platen roller. A base mounted between the first and second frames, a bracket provided on the first and second frames, and rotatably supported by a rotating shaft; and a tip of the bracket, A pressure shaft for imparting a descending operation for printing on a card; and a heat-sensitive material for the card-shaped magnetic recording medium by the print head on the first and second frames forming a transport path below the print head. Coloring layer When printing is performed on the entire printing surface on which the thermoreversible thermosensitive recording layer is formed, a cutout portion formed so as not to interfere with the print head and the bracket, and provided in the cutout portion, about a conveyance width. And a card guide spring fixed to the base with screws or the like.

[0014]

Next, the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a side view showing a first embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a side view showing the first embodiment of the present invention. The card guide mechanism shown in FIGS. 1 and 2 includes frames 2 and 3 for guiding the side of the card-shaped magnetic recording medium 1,
Feed rollers 5 to 8 disposed between the frames 2 and 3,
A platen roller 4 provided between the feed rollers 5, 6 and the feed rollers 7, 8, a print head 15 provided above the platen roller 4, and a base 16 mounted between the frames 2, 3; , A bracket 10 provided on the frames 2 and 3 and rotatably supported by a rotating shaft 12, a pressure shaft 11 for imparting a lowering operation for printing on a card to a tip of the bracket 10, and a print head 15. When printing is performed by the print head 15 on the entire printing surface of the card-shaped magnetic recording medium 1 on which the thermosensitive coloring layer and the thermoreversible thermosensitive recording layer are formed, on the frames 2 and 3 forming the transport path below the recording medium. A notch portion 17 formed so as not to interfere with the print head 15 and the bracket 10, and a U-shaped spring member provided in the notch portion 17 and having a width of about the conveyance width. Te configured to include a card guide spring 9 which is fixed with screws or the like to the base 16, a.

The frames 2 and 3 are made of metal such as stainless steel or plastic. Feed rollers 5-8
Is preferably a rubber material. The platen roller 4 is made of a rubber material and its hardness is desirably softer than the feed rollers 5 to 8. The print head 15 is desirably a horizontal type in order to reduce the size and space of the apparatus, and has a tip portion formed of a plurality of heating element dots. The base 16 is formed of metal or plastic. The bracket 10 is formed of metal.

The pressure shaft 11 can apply a descending operation to the bracket 10 to which the print head 15 is fixed, mainly through a link mechanism by an electric component such as a DC solenoid. It is provided detachably. The card guide spring 9 is attached to a position of the notch 17 of the frames 2 and 3 forming the conveyance path with an upper body abutting on the side of the base 16. The sides of the card-shaped magnetic recording medium 1 are guided by the U-shaped inner A and B surfaces of the card guide spring 9.

FIG. 3 is a side view for explaining the operation of the present invention. The upper feed rollers 5 and 6 are driven rollers, and the lower feed rollers 7 and 8 are driven by spring members.
Is pressed and energized. The feed rollers 7, 8 are driven and rotated by a drive system such as a motor, a pulley, a belt, and the like through a rotation shaft. When the card-shaped magnetic recording medium 1 conveyed while being sandwiched between the feed rollers 5 and 6 and the feed rollers 7 and 8 is conveyed below the print head 15 along the conveyance path formed by the frame, the card-shaped magnetic recording medium 1 A sensor determines whether or not the recording medium 1 is below the print head 15, and the DC solenoid operates the pressure shaft 11 via the link mechanism according to a print command from the board.
Moves downward. The print head 15 screwed to the bracket 10 is rotated in the counterclockwise direction C about the rotation shaft 12 by being engaged with the pressure shaft 11, so that the heating element dot portion is printed on the card-shaped magnetic recording medium. Printing is started by contacting the printing surface of the medium 1 on which the thermosensitive coloring layer or the thermoreversible thermosensitive recording layer is formed.

In this case, the card-shaped magnetic recording medium 1 is sandwiched between the heating element dots of the print head 15 and the platen roller 4 while being guided by the card guide spring 9 disposed below the print head 15, and pressed. As a result, arbitrary characters,
You can draw patterns such as figures.

The card guide spring 9 is guided by the print head 15 from above during the pressing operation of the print head 15 while guiding the side of the card-shaped magnetic recording medium 1 to guide the side of the base 16. It descends while flexing with the surface abutting. When printing is completed, the bracket 10 fixing the print head 15 is retracted by the retracting mechanism using the spring member attached to the rotating shaft, so that the card guide spring 9 is also restored by the spring force and the initial mounting state (FIG. 1). See). Even in this case, the side of the card-shaped magnetic recording medium 1 is being guided.

When the card guide spring 9 is mounted, when the printing by the print head 15 is not normally performed, no jam or the like occurs even if the card-shaped magnetic recording medium 1 in which warpage, bending, bending, or the like occurs is conveyed. In this way, as shown in FIG. 1, it is attached and held in a shape along the upper side.

When the print head 15 is lowered during printing, the card guide spring 9 bends downward while being pressed by the print head 15, as shown in FIG. Since the card-shaped magnetic recording medium 1 is already conveyed below the print head 15, the card guide spring 9 guides the sides and the upper surface, so that no jam occurs.

In the above configuration, the transport path is maintained while the card-shaped magnetic recording medium 1 is guided on both sides by the frames 2, 3 and the card guide spring 9 by the feed rollers 5, 6 and the feed rollers 7, 8. Is transported,
Recording and reproduction of magnetic data are performed by the print head 15 and the magnetic head.

FIG. 4 is a top view showing a second embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 5 is a sectional view showing a second embodiment of the present invention. In the card guide mechanism shown in FIGS. 4 and 5, the card guide springs 13 and 14 are attached to the card-shaped magnetic recording medium 1.
Provided separately on both sides of the. Card guide spring 1
The operations of the card-shaped magnetic recording media 1 and 3 are the same as those of the first embodiment. Even if one side of the recording medium 1 is positioned or the size of the card-shaped magnetic recording medium 1 varies, the track of the card-shaped magnetic recording medium 1 runs on a track of a predetermined magnetic head. By regulating the deflection in the width direction, a more stable transport state of the card-shaped magnetic recording medium 1 can be maintained.

[0025]

Since the card guide mechanism of the present invention can use a print head wider than the width of the card-shaped magnetic recording medium, it can draw a pattern such as an arbitrary character or graphic over the entire card width of the card-shaped magnetic recording medium. There is an effect that can be.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a side view showing a first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a top view showing the first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a side view for explaining the operation of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a top view showing a second embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a sectional view showing a second embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a sectional view showing a first conventional example.

FIG. 7 is a sectional view showing a second conventional example.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Card-shaped magnetic recording medium 2, 3 Frames 5-8 Feed roller 9 Card guide spring 10 Bracket 10 11 Pressure shaft 11 12 Rotation axis 15 Print head 16 Base 17 Notch

Claims (2)

(57) [Claims] 1. A conveying means for conveying a card-shaped recording medium having a thermosensitive coloring layer or a thermoreversible thermosensitive recording layer and a magnetic recording layer along a conveying path, and the card-like recording medium along the conveying path. A frame portion for guiding a side portion, a magnetic data recording / reproducing head on the card-shaped recording medium, and a print head for recording characters and image data on the card-shaped recording medium;
A card guide comprising a spring member provided below the print head and guiding a side portion of the card-shaped recording medium.
The print head presses the frame that guides the side
The print head so that it does not touch when descended
A notch is formed in the frame so that
A card guide mechanism. 2. A guide for guiding a side of a card-shaped magnetic recording medium.
First and second frames, and first to second frames disposed between the first and second frames.
4, the first and second feed rollers, and the third and fourth feed rollers.
A platen roller provided between the first and second frames , a print head provided above the platen roller, and a base mounted between the first and second frames.
When the first and provided in the second frame, the rotation shaft
A bracket rotatably supported and a lower end for printing on a card at the end of the bracket.
A pressure shaft for applying an operation, and a first shaft forming a conveyance path below the print head.
And the second frame, the card by the print head
The thermoreversible thermosensitive recording layer is more shaped than the thermosensitive coloring layer of magnetic magnetic recording media.
When printing on the entire printing surface that has been
And is formed so as not to interfere with the bracket and the bracket.
Cut-out portion, and a U-shaped bag provided in the cut-out portion and having a width of about the conveyance width.
And a car fixed to the base with screws or the like.
And a guide spring .