JP3151659B2 - Recording device for plate-shaped media - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a recording apparatus for a plate medium, which feeds / conveys a plate medium such as a card and a tag , and records the medium on the conveyed plate medium.

[0002]

Conventionally, to record <br/> a plate-like medium such as a card or tag, as a transport processor for conveying the plate-like medium to the magnetic read, the plate-like medium as shown in FIG. 7 2. Description of the Related Art A card printer that conveys and prints in a horizontal direction with a vertical plane has been proposed. The card printer 40 has an accommodation room 41 for accommodating a plurality of cards 2, a half-moon roller 42 for feeding one card 2, and the card 2 is pressed toward the half-moon roller 42 in the accommodation room 41. A push plate 43 is provided, and by rotating the half-moon roller 42 once, the card 2 in the front row in contact with the half-moon roller 42 is driven by the driving roller 4.
Conveying means 4 comprising 4 and 45 and pinch rollers 46 and 47
And the transport means 48 and the thermal head 4
9, the printing medium is conveyed in the horizontal direction with the plane of the plate medium being vertical. In addition, 50 is a platen roller.

In the printing device 48, the half-moon roller 4
2 when passing the card 2 to a drive roller 44 and the pinch roller 46, the distance between the drive roller 44 and the pinch roller 46 is constructed with a small gap from the pressure or the thickness of the card 2, sufficient driving the thermal head 49 The structure was such that it was conveyed with force.

[0004]

When the card 2 fed from the half-moon roller 42 enters the driving roller 44 and the pinch roller 46, such a recording apparatus is used.
Is thicker and harder than paper or the like, so the impact of the rush is large because it is hard. Further, since the half moon roller 42 is only in contact with the card 2 on the side of the storage chamber 41, the impact cannot be absorbed. However, there is a problem in that the card 2 being conveyed is tilted or insufficiently fed, which adversely affects the recording quality.

[0005]

The present invention SUMMARY OF] In view of the above problems, to provide a recording apparatus capable of performing the carrying process of generating non plate medium lack of inclination and feed plate medium, the feed means <br Before the leading end of the plate-shaped medium fed from the feeding roller is conveyed to the conveying unit, the position of the pinch roller is set to a position not close to the driving roller, and the leading end of the plate-shaped medium is moved between the driving roller and the pinch roller. Is reached, the position of the pinch roller is moved to a position close to the drive roller.

[0006]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Further, a recording apparatus for a plate-shaped medium according to the present invention is described.
The drive roller drives the plate medium fed by the feeding means.
And transported to the recording head by transport means consisting of pinch rollers
Then, the recording head is moved toward the plate-shaped medium to perform recording.
In the recording apparatus for a plate-shaped medium to be performed,
Move the roller between the proximity position and the non-proximity position with respect to the drive roller.
Prepare to move freely .

The movement of the pinch roller is described.
Driven by the recording head position moving means, the leading end of the plate-shaped medium
Pinch when the part is fed between the drive roller and the pinch roller
Move the roller position from the non-proximity position to the
Prints when the leading edge of the medium is fed near the recording head
The head is moved to the recording position.

Further, one end of the pinch roller is rotatable.
The pivotally supported swinging rod is rotatably supported by the swinging rod.
The direction in which the pinch roller moves toward the drive roller is
Spring means for urging the swinging rod, the swinging rod and the recording head
Connecting means for connecting the moving means.

The recording head of the recording apparatus having the above configuration is recorded.
When the print head is moved to the position,
The swinging rod swings due to the tension of
Close to LA. Also, move the recording head to the non-recording position.
When this is done, the swinging rod swings through the connecting means and the pinch roller
Comes away from the drive roller.

Further, the feeding means, the conveying means, and the recording head
Is for transporting and recording with the plane of the plate-shaped medium vertical.
You.

[0011]

An embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a schematic plan view of a card printer that prints on a card as a plate-shaped medium of the present invention, FIG. 2 is an enlarged view of a printing portion of the card printer, FIG.
4 to 6 are enlarged views in which a part of a printing unit of the card printer is cut.

In FIG. 1, a card printer 1 includes a storage chamber 3 for storing a plurality of cards 2 and a printing unit 4 for printing characters, graphics, and the like on the cards conveyed from the storage chamber 3.
And a storage chamber 5 for aligning and storing printed cards.

A plurality of cards 2 are stored in the accommodation room 3 for the cards 2.
The card 2 is always urged toward the side wall 3a in the front direction by the pressing plate 6 by the tension of a spring (not shown). 7 is a half-moon roller, and the half-moon roller 7 is a motor (not shown).
, The cards 2 are intermittently fed one by one in the printing unit 4 direction. Note that the regulating plate 8 aligns the rear end of the card, and the pressing plate 9
It is loaded from 2 and pressed against the bottom.

A belt 14 is wound around a roller right 11, a roller left 12, and a tension roller 13, and the belt 1 is wound around the tension roller 13 by a spring (not shown).
4 is provided with tension. The belt 14 rotates by transmitting a drive from a drive source (not shown) to the right roller 11 and the left roller 12.

A platen 15 is rotatably disposed substantially at the center between the right roller 11 and the left roller 12, and a thermal head 16 is disposed opposite to the platen 15.
6, the ink ribbon cassette 17 is arranged. The thermal head 16 and the ink ribbon cassette 1
The printing unit 4 is composed of the platen 7 and the platen 15.

As shown in FIG. 4 to FIG.
The head angle 6 is provided substantially at the center of the head angle 18. The head angle 18 has one end 18a rotatably provided on the shaft 7a of the semicircular roller 7, and the other end 18b is not shown by spring means (not shown). Since the motor 19 is urged to come into contact with the rotating cam 19, the cam 19
When the is rotated, the thermal head 16 moves in the direction of contacting and separating from the platen 15.

The pinch roller right 20 and the pinch roller left 21 face the roller right 11 and the roller left 12, respectively.
The pinch roller right 20 is connected to the shaft 12 of the roller left 12 at one end.
a is provided on a swinging rod 22 which is rotatably provided in the direction a and is biased in the direction of the belt 14 by a spring means (not shown). It moves in the direction of contact and separation with respect to the right 10 and the left roller 11.

The head angle 18 and the swinging rod 22 to the right of the pinch roller are connected by a connecting rod 23. The connecting rod 23 has one end rotatably provided on the pin 18c of the head angle 18, and the other end. A groove 23a is formed in the portion,
A rocking pin 22a is engaged with the groove 23a. The connecting rod 23 causes the swinging rod 22 to interlock with the swing of the head angle 18. When the unprinted thermal head 16 is separated from the platen 15 as shown in FIG. The belt is separated from the belt 14 (roller right 20).

On the downstream side of the belt 14, the position fixing roller 2
4 and a moving roller 25 are provided to send the card 2 conveyed by the belt 14 and the pinch roller left 12 to the next storage chamber 5 after printing.

The accommodation chamber 5 accommodates the printed card 2, and the accommodation chamber 5 is provided with a pressing plate 26 for vertically aligning the cards 2 and a biasing alignment plate 27. The urging alignment plate 27 is arranged to accommodate the card 2 conveyed and discharged by the conveyor belt 14 and the position fixing roller 24 and the moving roller 25 so that the plane 201 is vertical and the card 2 is aligned.

The display unit 28 is a known liquid crystal display, and displays print data and format information input by the keyboard 29 and displays instructions given to the operator.

Next, the operation of this embodiment will be described.
As shown in FIGS. 1 and 4, the positions of the thermal head 16 and the pinch roller 11 at the time of non-printing are separated from the platen 15 and the belt 14 (roller 20), respectively.

Here, when the printing operation of the present apparatus is performed by the operator, first, the half-moon roller 7 rotates, and by this rotation, the card 2 in the front row vertically housed in the housing chamber 3 is rotated. Is fed. FIG. 5 shows this state, in which the cam 19 rotates in synchronization with the timing of this feeding, and the head angle 18 slightly swings in the direction of the belt 14 by the bias of the spring. 22 also swings in the direction of the belt 14 so that the pinch roller right 11 comes close to the belt 14.

The rotation timing of the cam 19 is controlled by a CPU (not shown). When the leading end of the card 2 reaches between the right roller 11 and the right pinch roller 20 by the half moon roller 7, The pinch roller right 20 is moved so that the front end of the card 2 is sandwiched between the pinch roller 20 and the right roller 11 so as to prevent an impact due to the entry of the card 2 from occurring.

Next, the card 2 is moved to a position suitable for printing by the rotation of the belt 14 in the clockwise direction.
FIG. 6 shows this state. Similarly to the above, the cam 19 is rotated by the CPU control (not shown) and the head angle 1
8 swings in the direction of the belt 14 by the bias of the spring,
As a result, the thermal head 16 moves to a position where it contacts the card 2. At this time, even if the head angle 18 is further swung toward the belt 14 from the start of feeding of the card 2 by the groove 23a of the connecting rod 23, the swinging rod 22 supporting the pinch roller right 20 is not affected. ing.

The card 2 is further conveyed by driving the belt 14. At this time, character or image information is transferred to a predetermined position of the card 2 by the thermal head 16, and the belt 14, the pinch roller left 21 and the position fixing roller 24 The card 2 is accommodated in the accommodation room 5 by the conveyance with the moving roller 25.

[0027]

According to the present invention, the plate-shaped medium is moved to its flat portion.
The recording device of a plate-like medium that conveys and records so that
Before the leading end of the plate-shaped medium is conveyed to the conveying means by driving the recording head position moving means for moving the position of the recording head, the position of the pinch roller is set to a non-proximity position to the conveying roller, and When the leading end of the medium reaches the position between the drive roller and the pinch roller, the position of the pinch roller is moved to a position close to the drive roller, and the leading end of the plate-shaped medium moves close to the recording head.
Runode moving the recording head is conveyed to near the recording position, the plate-like medium which is fed from the feed roller is of shock at the time of rush to the drive roller and the pinch roller photon
Does not occur, and then the transport roller and pinch roller are driven
, The recording is performed, so that high quality recording can be performed. In addition, since the movement of the pinch roller is driven by the recording head position moving means, the apparatus can be simplified and the cost can be reduced.

The recording head position moving means may be
The transmission of the driving force for the roller movement is performed by the swinging rod, spring means,
By using a simple configuration with steps, less expensive equipment can be installed.
Can be provided.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic plan view of a card printer according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an enlarged view of a printing unit of the curve printer.

FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating a print example of a card of a card printer.

FIG. 4 is an enlarged plan view of a part of a printing section of the curve printer at the time of non-printing.

FIG. 5 is an enlarged plan view of a part of a printing unit of the curve printer when the card is fed.

FIG. 6 is an enlarged plan view of a part of a printing section of the curve printer at the time of printing.

FIG. 7 is a plan view of a conventional card printer.

[Explanation of symbols]

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Card printer 2 Card (plate-shaped medium) 3 Storage room 4 Printing part 6 Press plate 7 Half moon roller (feeding roller) 11 Roller right ( drive roller) 12 Roller left 13 Tension roller 14 Belt 15 Platen 16 Thermal head 17 Ink ribbon 18 Head Angle 19 Cam 20 Pinch Roller Right 21 Pinch Roller Left 22 Swinging Rod 23 Interlocking Rod

Claims (2)

(57) [Claims] 1. A and the feeding means for feeding to the planar portion in a vertical plate-like medium, the flat portion perpendicularly to the fed sheet-like medium from the feeding means
To the transport means of the drive roller and the pinch roller happens plate medium to be conveyed to a subsequent step, separable freely relative to the plate-like medium and the plane portion is conveyed in the vertical downstream of the conveying means A print head provided; a print head position moving means for moving the position of the print head; and a pinch roller of the transport means movably provided at a position close to and not close to the drive roller. The movement is driven by the recording head position moving means, and when the leading end of the plate medium is fed between the driving roller and the pinch roller, the position of the pinch roller is moved from the non-close position to the closer position, and the leading end of the plate medium is moved. A recording apparatus for a plate-shaped medium, wherein the recording head is moved to a recording position when the unit is conveyed to the vicinity of the recording head. 2. A pinch roller is rotatably supported at one end by a pivoting rod pivotally supported at one end, and said pinch roller pivots in a direction in which a pinch roller of the pivoting rod moves toward a driving roller. 2. The recording apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a spring for urging the rod, and a connecting unit for connecting the swinging rod and the recording head position moving unit.